Hi all!

Hope someone can help me with this, since I've searched my @#s off in google without any luck...

I've got a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard, and on it is an Intel 82801 ER [ICH5] SATA RAID controller.
I've already configured a raid array with 2xRaptor 36GB discs, and installed XP on a NTFS partition.
But now comes the problem: How do I configure an existing array to be found by linux?

I just want access to the NTFS partition on the array at first.
(The partition with the page file crashed, and now I can't start XP, even in safemode.... ARGH I'm so fed up with pathetic Windows XP, I have no idea why they call it an Operating System when it's not operating at all!!)

Later I want Linux on it as well, so if you happen to know how to boot and install linux from a raid partition, please fill me in on that as well...

I've tried to configure dmraid, but I'm currently working on a Knoppix live cd, so I have some lib related errors when I compile from source...

But from what I gather, the 82801 ER is a software raid controller, operating from it's own bios. So I thought I could use the raidtab to set it up. But alas that is a partition based setup (i.e. uses /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 to setup a striped partition) when I want a device based setup (i.e. /dev/sda and /dev/sdb).

I have two HDs, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, and if I use fdisk, I can actually see that there IS a partition on sda, but I can't see anything on sdb... So if I use raidtab, I would need to see a partition on sdb as well...

Hope someone can make some sense out of this!
Cheers,
TylerD75

ehh... wasn't aware knoppix was debian based...
I've installed dmraid, so I'll read the howto!