how do you get the kubuntu installer to recognize a raid aray? i have two hard drives, a pair of 80 gig WD sata drives, on mirror raid, with a windows ntfs partition and 10 gigs of unpartitioned space. with windows i had to put the drivers on a floppy and load it durring the install, what is the procedure i should use here? here is a link to the motherboad site. thanks for all your help!

ps im installing off the Kubuntu 5.10 (breezy) i386 cd.

http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/p...o=13&PISNo=319

well generally speaking you won't need a driver disk... this ain't windows. If the underlying RAID is using a supported chipset like a highpoint controller then it should all load automatically. If however it's using a "fakeraid" system, i.e a bios controlled software raid cludge, then i don't actually believe there is support. IBM provide kernel patches, but you would struggle to patch a new kernel to provide support for it.

so when i get to the partition manager it should recognize my two drives as a single raid drive if its suported.

i tried it and it only recognized them as seperate scsi drives, when i went to manually edit and chose the option to configure software raid i believe it was i chose raid 0 and i got a big scary red screen telling me something about how i couldnt, i tried it with raid 1 as well and same deal.

ok i did it again and this time i created two raid partitions on the seperatly recognized sata drives, and when i went to create software raid i got a message telling me it needed to write changes to the disks to continue. i think this is what i want to do, and this will make it recognize the raid i have however im worried that doing this will make my current ntfs windows partition unusable or even erase it, how should i proceed?