<html> <head> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <style></style> <div dir="ltr">Hi Phillip, > I would advise using mdadm instead since it is much better supported and <div>> more reliable and feature complete. > Won't mdadm overwrite the metadata written to the disk by the BIOS/UEFI. The RAID needs to be accessible from Windows and Linux. And I already use the RAID under windows for my USER(would be /home for linux) directory. > I believe it should just work unless they changed the format of the > dmsetup table. > Could be true. Maybe just loading the appropriate module will work. > dmraid -n doesn't already recognize it? You can find the existing known > offsets in pdc.h. > I will run the command tonight when I am home. But as far as I can tell I only get "found 0 sectors" for all the three disks. Maybe adding the offset patch from ubuntu will do the trick. > dmraid already understands pdc metadata. > Does this include all the info needed to setup a RAID-5. For instance there are four different algorithm, left-asymmetric, left-symmetric, right-asymmetric and right-symmetric that can be picked. > Ubtunu 12.04 has switched to letting kpartx activate the partitions > instead of dmraid, which supports GPT. > Another patch I can apply to the source tree. :-) Kind regards, Mark-Willem </div></div> </div></body> </html>