Fedora 8 x86-64 and NVRAID [Partially Solved]

[Raymond C. Rodgers]

Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> Dnia 22-02-2008, pią o godzinie 11:56 +1000, Brian Chadwick pisze:
>   
>> Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
>>     
>>> A couple months ago, I reinstalled Windows XP Pro and Fedora 8 on
>>>       
>> my 
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>>> machine which has the Asus M2NBP-VM CSM motherboard featuring
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>> NVidia's 
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>>> NForce 430B chipset. I have a primary boot drive that is not a part
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>> of 
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>>> the raid but which boots both WinXP and Fedora just fine, and I have
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>> a 
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>>> RAID 1 set up with two 100 GB drives, formatted with NTFS.
>>> Raymond
>>>
>>>       
>> its probably BIOS assisted RAID, aka fakeRAID ... Fedora doesnt support it.
>>
>>     
>
>   I would rather say it is supported:
>
> % dmraid -l | grep nvidia
> nvidia  : NVidia RAID (S,0,1,10,5)
>
>  I even remember FC5 or FC6 had dmraid in installer and allowed install
> into such fakeraid.
>
>  Raymond, I suggest you look into man "dmraid". 
>   
Thanks again for the advice, it appears that dmraid does indeed support 
my NVRAID/FakeRAID, and I've managed to activate but not mount the NTFS 
partition on the array. I'll conquer that problem in time. What's 
troubling me at the moment, is that the two individual drives of the 
array are being mounted "automagically" by Fedora; they aren't listed in 
the fstab file at all. A little research is leading me to believe that 
perhaps the initial installation of Fedora or perhaps an update 
performed a mkinitrd with those partitions mounted, so they're mounted 
whenever I boot. I'll have to find a solution to that, and get the raid 
array entry in /dev/mapper/ mounted via fstab...

Wish me luck... ;)
Raymond
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