Hi everyone,

I'm needing help quick.

I'm required to do some WinDozing at home for a while (strickly work related, I'm not happy about this situation either).

So anyway, I'm going from Mandrake 10.0 Community (time for an upgrade anyway) to a Dual booting WindowsXP sp2 and Fedora Core 3.

I decided to raid together two hdd's using a Raid card I had floating around (Silicon Image ATA133 Raid card).

Anyway, installed WindowsXP without a problem.

The problem came when I tried to install Fedora. It detects both drives seperately, not as one stripped hdd (so it see's two 60's, instead of one 120Gig).

I tried Mandrake 10.1 Official, just to make sure this wasn't some Fedora thing, and the same thing happened.

Yes I started to freakout. MS was seeing something that Linux wasn't. World in crisis.

After some searching around on the internet, I found the problem. The Raid card I'm using (and many other budget raid cards and on-motherboard raid) is actually more software raid than hardware raid.

Linux, basically, isn't fooled into thinking this is one big hdd, but two.

Which brings me to my problem.

I WANT Linux (Fedora in my case) to be fooled. I've learnt that I can set up Linux software raid, but since I want to dual boot with Windows I can't do this.

What are my options here? Can this actually be done somehow?

Also, will Linux soon have support for these "Software" raid cards? Or at least give you the option to be fooled like Windows?

Cheers

You are not the only one having these troubles:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...postid=1324191

although its a different card, the problem is the same

Yes, I've seen that quite a few people are having the same problem I'm having.

Anyone have a definate solution to this? Surely someone has found a way around this...

Thankx