lol. I get the message! I guess I'll be converting the drive to a non-RAID setup then.

Thanks

Andrew.

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

Andrew Pattison schrieb:

Sounds complicated. Why will partitioning not work the way I would


Because:
- parted can't handle disks with "unknown" (not hardcoded into parted) major numbers, so you'd have to use *fdisk - *fdisk will likely assume wrong stuff about your geometry, wrecking windows
- after partitioning, the BLKRRPART ioctl will fail, you have to run
"dmraid -an; dmraid -ay" to see anything
- dmraid has its own partition table parsing code, it may fail in unexpected ways
- probably a ton of other problems I forgot
- ah yes, of course resize will NOT work.

expect? I would have thought the array would just look like any other


No, because of the missing BLKRRPART and HD_GETGEO support.

disk as far as fdisk was concerned. Also, how feasible is dual booting with Windows XP on the fake RAID?


If you actually manage to boot into linux, dual booting should be very easy (compared to the pains before).

/me wanders off to write some lengthy paper for university - at least it's not as painful as fakeRAID support.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel


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