by I am having some troubles trying to configure my RAID-0 system in Linux
(Red Hat 7.2 kernel 2.4.18). My controller is the Promise FastTrak lite
and it is on my motherboard. I am booting using lilo, and i can get it to
load and recognize my drives just not the RAID stripe. I use two 60G
drives to make a 120G RAID stripe. There are two NTFS partitions on the
stripe, both for Windows XP.
My question is what do I need to do to be able to mount these two NTFS
partitions under linux? I don't know which device I am supposed to use.
The drives are seen as /dev/hde and /dev/hdg, since they are on what I
think is referred to as IDE-SCSI. How would I go about telling linux that
these two drives are really a RAID setup? I have compiled RAID and SCSI
support into the kernel.
My lilo.conf seems to be okay. It goes something like this:
lba32
disk=/dev/hdb
bios=0x80 #My root linux device, on IDE0 slave
disk=/dev/hde
bios=0x81
disk=/dev/hdg
bios=0x82
append="hdb=973,128,63 hde=7476,255,63 hdg=none"
Is this part correct? Is there something I am leaving out? The drives are
all recognized okay, but I still can't mount the NTFS partitions. What
device should I be using for the mount? I don't think it really matters
that they are NTFS formatted, all I need is to be able to access both
drives as a unit.
Here is what my fstab looks like:
/dev/hde1 /mnt/winxp ntfs ro, umask=0 0 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/media ntfs ro, umask=0 0 0
These settings worked before I switched to RAID so I assume they are the
same except for the device I am mounting.
Thank you,
Steve Orzel