PERC 5/E adapter RAID Problems

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

I have a MD1000 that is connected to a PowerEdge 2950.  The MD1000 is in configuration mode “unify” and its firmware version is A.04.  The PowerEdge 2950 that the MD1000 is connected to is running Server 2003 Enterprise R2 32-bit using the PERC 5/E adapter.  I have installed six 600GB drives and I would like to create a virtual group using all six of them in a RAID-5 set.  However, when doing so I run into problems.

I step through the “Create Virtual Disk Wizard” selecting Advance Mode, selecting RAID-5, selecting all six drives, setting the parameters for the Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE policies and such, and then clicking finish.  When it goes back to the virtual disk screen where it lists all the virtual disks within the MD1000, it displays the newly created virtual disk as RAID-50.  I have tried this with only selecting three physical drives and it still displays the newly created virtual disk as a RAID-50.  Which in the above practice, it would be impossible to have a RAID-50 with only three physical drives.

Does anyone know why this is occurring?  Thank you for you help.