[Dragon]

[Admiral LSD]

I don't know about Mandrake but I recall that the some versions of Red Hat allow you to load drivers off a floppy for inclusion into the installation kernel but unfortunately, not only do I not know if Mandrake offers a similar feature, I also have no clue as to just how you go about creating such a disk if it does. I'll see what I can find out but in the meantime perhaps someone whose more familiar with installing Linux onto a hardware RAID array can step in and lend a hand.