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Tomasz Torcz wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Dnia 22-02-2008, pią o godzinie 11:56 +1000, Brian Chadwick pisze:
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<pre wrap="">Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
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<pre wrap="">A couple months ago, I reinstalled Windows XP Pro and Fedora 8 on
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<pre wrap="">machine which has the Asus M2NBP-VM CSM motherboard featuring
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<pre wrap="">NForce 430B chipset. I have a primary boot drive that is not a part
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<pre wrap="">the raid but which boots both WinXP and Fedora just fine, and I have
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<pre wrap="">RAID 1 set up with two 100 GB drives, formatted with NTFS.
Raymond
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<pre wrap="">its probably BIOS assisted RAID, aka fakeRAID ... Fedora doesnt support it.
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I would rather say it is supported:
% dmraid -l | grep nvidia
nvidia : NVidia RAID (S,0,1,10,5)
I even remember FC5 or FC6 had dmraid in installer and allowed install
into such fakeraid.
Raymond, I suggest you look into man "dmraid".
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Thanks again for the advice, it appears that dmraid does indeed support
my NVRAID/FakeRAID, and I've managed to activate but not mount the NTFS
partition on the array. I'll conquer that problem in time. What's
troubling me at the moment, is that the two individual drives of the
array are being mounted "automagically" by Fedora; they aren't listed
in the fstab file at all. A little research is leading me to believe
that perhaps the initial installation of Fedora or perhaps an update
performed a mkinitrd with those partitions mounted, so they're mounted
whenever I boot. I'll have to find a solution to that, and get the raid
array entry in /dev/mapper/ mounted via fstab...<br>
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Wish me luck... ;)<br>
Raymond<br>
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