So anyway, it was like, 14:52 CET Jan 24 2007, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
hot_rage was all like, "Dude,

[..]

> I started installing gentoo on my box on sata raid1
> array. I followed the instructions on the gentoo-wiki
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_...(Onboard)_RAID
> but got stuck trying to emerge the dmraid package because of this
> package is masked.

I'd avoid using the onboard "raid", since it's just faked software
raid anyway (there's no true hardware raid on any consumer-level board
that I'm aware of) and you'll have an easier time setting up native
software raid (using mdadm and kernel capabilities) instead.

An added bonus is that you can replace your hardware without having
to do a full backup just to move your data to another software raid
configuration.

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