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On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:08 pm, drew@××××××××××××××.net wrote: |
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> I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 |
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> chipset. |
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> There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the |
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> controller built in to the motherboard. |
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> ... |
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> I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two |
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> icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for sdb. I |
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> can |
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> not mount either. I assume this is because Knoppix is seeing each |
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> drive |
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> individually instead of the one logical striped drive it is. |
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I'm no expert on this, but I believe that many ATA "hardware" RAID |
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arrangements in fact just use their Windoze drivers to do software |
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RAID. I'd do some research via Googling the chipset &/or board's model |
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number if I were you. |
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> Is there some magic I can perform at the boot prompt to get Knoppix to |
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> see the |
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> two individual drives as one logical striped drive? I can't recover |
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> the data |
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> from booting Windows because it's all screwed up and reboots itself |
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> shortly |
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> after logon. |
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If my guess is correct then the best thing might be to install Windows |
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on a spare drive & boot from that to see the RAID as one. You might try |
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booting with a Windows CD & see if the RAID is recognised as a single |
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partition... if you get the option to do a repair install you _should_ |
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be able to get an at-least-mostly-working Windows install & all your |
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data intact. Recover the data to a portable drive & format. |
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Stroller. |
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