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bubbl07
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 Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:58 pm Post subject: nForce3 Raid0 partitioning problems with cfdisk |
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hey all,
so i have the msi k8n neo2 and 2x 80GB sata hdds that i want to configure in a raid0 array. ideally i want to have the following partitions set up:
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1 primary 100MB ext2 grub
2 primary 20GB reiserfs gentoo
3 extended
4 logical 40GB ntfs windows xp
5 logical 20GB ntfs windows xp 64-bit
6 primary 80GB fat32 storage and such |
so now i've set up the drives in a raid0 configuration in the nvraid bios utility, booted up the amd64 gentoo live cd ("gentoo noapic doataraid"), loaded the sata drivers ("modprobe sata_nv"), and went into cfdisk. however, it shows up as two separate 80GB drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). when i boot from the windows install cd, it shows up as one contiguous 160GB drive (after loading the drivers from the install disk). does anyone know if there's a utility i can use to create the partition tabel for a raid0 array that i can use to install all these? |
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Spear
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| DMRaid from http://people.redhat.com/heinzm/sw/dmraid/ is one way at least. It needs devicemapping support in the kernel. But other than that dmraid -ay should pretty much do everything for you, other than mounting the disk. |
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bubbl07
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:32 am Post subject: |
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well i have an extra 4GB HDD lying around somewhere that i was thinking i could load a proper kernel onto, and then boot from that and configure the raid and such. i tried using the dmraid utility from the live cd with no results. if anyone's done this before, advice or suggestions woudl be greatly appreciated  . |
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