Fedora 8 x86-64 and NVRAID

[Brian Chadwick]

Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
> A couple months ago, I reinstalled Windows XP Pro and Fedora 8 on my 
> machine which has the Asus M2NBP-VM CSM motherboard featuring NVidia's 
> NForce 430B chipset. I have a primary boot drive that is not a part of 
> the raid but which boots both WinXP and Fedora just fine, and I have a 
> RAID 1 set up with two 100 GB drives, formatted with NTFS.
>
> Now, under Windows I have MediaShield installed and running which 
> allows me to check the RAID status, but Windows has always treated the 
> two drives in the array as a single device even during installation.
>
> Fedora, on the other hand and despite what I've read, is showing the 
> two individual volumes and mounts both automatically. I can read and 
> write to either volume separately, but when I boot into Windows I 
> sometimes lose data because the drives weren't in sync. This is my 
> first experience with a RAID setup, and I'm not sure what I need to do 
> to get Fedora recognizing the RAID properly. I did some searching 
> before this post, and it seems that other people using FC6 were 
> surprised at the fact that Fedora "just worked" and only mounted their 
> arrays as a single volumes.
>
> Did I miss something? Any ideas what I can do to remedy this situation?
>
> Thanks,
> Raymond
>
its probably BIOS assisted RAID, aka fakeRAID ... Fedora doesnt support it.