On Wednesday 30 January 2002 12:52, Leander Koornneef wrote: Leander,
I checked the Mandrake 8.1 kernel module support for Promise devices and I found the following under the kernel configuration: Promise PDC202 (46, 62, 65, 67, 68) Promise DC4030 support (EXPERIMENTAL) Support Promise software RAID (Fasttrak) This is all I could locate for Promise related modules and kernel support. I don't think you should be worried about damaging the disk hardware; that's not likely. However, your concerns are valid if they regard the Windows data. I think it's not going to be possible to split your raid partition; you should be prepared to back up and then unconditionally blow away the windows partition; it's not salvageable...you can't dual boot off just two raid0 disks. At least not with the hardware bios that I've seen; since it stripes the drives at the hardware level and the partition is created on top of that. In my case, I've got an Abit KT7-Raid mobo with an onboard HPT370 raid chipset. Although I can "raid-0" a dos partition perfectly, Mandrake 8.0 Linux was unable to see an HPT370 Raid array, and I was "forced" to go to software raid. Which was not really a problem, since I've been doing that for the last three years anyway. I've seen nothing to make me believe that the HPT370 array I have is natively recognized by Mandrake 8.1 kernel. Somebody please tell me different if they know something new. I certainly don't berate my status quo, since software raid outperforms hardware raid; the matter is of academic interest only. The upshot here is that in your situation, I think you're in the same boat as I, since the above devices don't seem to be advertising native raid support within the kernel. The situation may change for you if you check the manufacturer's websites for driver info. The Mandrake 8.1 install routine allows for setting up a raid array in the partitioning section of the install routine. This is probably the easiest method I've ever seen for setting up a raid array. I still prefer using fdisk and setting the partitions up manually, setting them to type "Linux raid autodetect", and then setting the boot partition to what it needs to be. > Hi, > > I've searched the usenet-archives for this extensively and came up with > about a million posts, but none of them gave me a clear view on this. > The question is pretty simple: > > Can I install Mandrake on an existing IDE hardware raid(0)-array which has > windows 2000 already installed? > > I'm thinking it can't be done (yet). I have no experience with raid-setups > myself, as I am asking this for a friend who recently bought a fancy new PC > and I convinced him that he should install Linux so he can see how great it > is :) > I am no newbie, so it would not be a problem to compile a new kernel or > stuff like that. I tried to boot from the Mandrake 8.0 CD, but although it > did nicely detect the Promise ATA100-RAID chipset, it could not > handle/detect the raid-array. I am now downloading the MDK 8.1 ISOs, but I > thought i would ask this first before I screw up this guy's disks :) The > most common advise I found, was to use software-raid. > Would it be possible to install windows and linux and tell them both to do > software-raid (on the same disks)? > > Any pointers/help would be greatly appreciated. > > best regards, > > Leander Koorneef _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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