Fw: RAID question

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 21.02.2004 schrieb Wouter Slob um 09:27:
> Hey,
> 
> I've got two hd combined with a RAID and split into 3 drives (C,D,E).
> I've got WXP on the C, D for documents and wanted to instal Fedora on my E drive.
> But this is an NTFS files system and I got problems while installing.
> At a certain point i had to choose to make a partition automatic or with a program.
> I choose automatic and the program warned it had to erase my harddisk (not saying c,d or e).
> I aborted at that point, cause i don't want to loose my C or D drive.
> What do I have to do to instal Fedora on this system? Can the instal handle a Raid MB, or is that causing troubles?
> 
> thnx!
> 
> W. Slob
> 
> This is the error i received:
> "The partition table on device hde was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on
> this device"

Just check on the other threads about the topic RAID in this list's
archive.

Fedora does not recognize your RAID array as one. This is a most common
problem as those IDE RAID adapters (onboard or with PCI card) are "fake"
RAID adapters, software RAID with BIOS support, but no real hardware
RAID. So you at least need a fitting driver module for it which is
brand, model and kernel specific.

Alexander


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