I'm trying to mount an ntfs partion that is raid 0 with two 40GB drives. My Linux partitions are on a seperate 40GB drive. I'm not sure if the partitions are being read correctly on the raid. When use the command "fdisk -l" I see the following:
root@darkstar:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdg: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Disk /dev/hdg doesn't contain a valid partition table
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: invalid flag 0xfffff313 of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)

Disk /dev/hde: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 2 4717 37881270 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hde2 * 4718 9730 40266922+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde5 ? 141386 166269 199875215+ be Solaris boot

Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40016019456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 141 1132551 5 Extended
/dev/hdc2 142 750 4891792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc3 751 3183 19543072+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc4 3184 3427 1959930 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdc5 1 13 104359+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc6 14 136 987966 83 Linux

I'm not even sure if that can be done with NTF$ (RAID + NTF$). Do you have support for it in the kernel ?

I don't know. How would I go about finding out? I'm a newbie some I'm still in the learning stage.

The software RAID how-to says you can run any filesystem on it. (I hope so)

Check here for the improved driver for NTF$ and more on the topic.

Are you actually going to be writing to an NTF$ partition ? I don't recommend it. AFAIK writing to NTF$ is not well supported and you may get data corruption if you try to write to it too often.

I just want to be able to read from it.

What controller are you using? From the way you phrase your question, I'm guessing it's one of the FakeRaid controllers. If it is, you'll need to run "dmraid -ay". Then, you'll need to mount the device that's under /dev/mapper. It'll be something strange looking like /dev/mapper/sil_bhebhtij1. Let me know which controller and I'll help if I can.

Ok, which kernel are you using ? Check the 'config' file (there should be a 'config.gz' available in '/proc', extract it somewhere) for "NTFS" support. Just search it and see if it says something like:

It's a onboard highpoint controller. Soyo dragon kt 400 motherboard.

Now, I think we're getting somewhere. Like I said, that is what is called a FakeRaid. Can you please install the dmraid package and run "dmraid -tay" and let me see the response?

I know how extract the file but I don't know where they would go.

What exactly are you trying to say to me, here? What files do you know how to extract? I don't know how to install programs in slackware, but you want to install "dmraid-1.0.0.rc13" or whatever the exact name is for the rc13 version on slack.

If you know how to install from source, then the source is here: http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/...0.rc13.tar.bz2

If you don't know, then download the file, put it somewhere where you want it to reside and run:
After that, go into the untarred directory and run:
Then, su and run:
And give me the results.

I've just remembered that this will probably be unsuccessful if you don't have the kernel headers or kernel source installed on your system. If there is an installable slackware dmraid, that's the one that will be the least aggravating to get going; even if it's not the latest version.

It didn't work. I haven't been able to find a slackware version

root@darkstar:/home/kenton/downloads/dmraid-1.0.0.rc13# make clean
make: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.
root@darkstar:/home/kenton/downloads/dmraid-1.0.0.rc13# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
root@darkstar:/home/kenton/downloads/dmraid-1.0.0.rc13#

I should have looked. You need to run "./configure" first for dmraid. Give that a try and then try rerunning the various make commands.

NOTE: Whenever you want to install a package from source, if there's a file called "configure" in the package, then you need to run "./configure" as your first step. The configure step checks to see that all the prerequisites for the package, such as make, gcc, kernel-headers, etc, are installed. If any are missing, it will print a short descriptive message and you will have to install whatever it is that's missing. For example, you're going to need both libdevmapper and libdevmapper-dev. Sorry that I can't give you an exact list of what needs to be done. You just have to deal with the prerequisites as they are noted.

Tried it this is the result:

root@darkstar:/home/kenton/downloads/dmraid-1.0.0.rc13# ./configure
-su: ./configure: No such file or directory