Comment 4 for bug 55138

I'm not sure why there's a descrpancy between the versions, but as far as I understand this, if the raid is making them available to the controller, then the kernel can see them. It doesn't know which are physical and which is the raid device. It just probes and reads what the controller gives it.

I've seen this exact thing with a Sun Netra A1000. It had 8 drives, that were raid5'd. It showed all 8 drives, plus the raid5 drive. It worked just fine. We got errors trying to access the physical drives, but the raid5 drive was no problem.