When you set up raid 1, only a single drive is presented to the operating system.
You did good.
Do the installation, have fun.
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OK, I powered off the system and removed the LHS drive - system would not boot. Replaced the LHS drive and removed the RHS drive and again would not boot. Replaced both drives and now will not boot. HP SmartStart informs me that I do now not have any hard drives at all!
There should be some message in the POST boot stage about the RAID array, generally around the time of the controller testing. There should be an F1/F2 on is to continue operating with the failed unit not available - this will result in no disks the other is to correct the situation.
As for additional disks, if you use the smartstart software you can raid 1+0 and then physically partition it into Logical Units (LUNS) as required, although for 36GB this is probably not required as LINUX allows 14 partitions per disk.
Also, it seems that after installing the OS, do not reboot straight away as the disks will take a while to fully sync. If they have not done so, the system could fail after pulling a drive. We have experienced that before.
Install the HP health app, as the command hplog -v will show any drive issues (failures, bad RAID 1, etc).
