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I don't know if you can get RAID to work or not. It looks to me like that RAID is a soft-raid (aka winraid) that requires a special driver. See <a href="http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html" rel="ugc">http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html</a>&nbsp;&amp; <a href="http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=297#raid" rel="ugc">http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=297#raid</a>
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I don't know if you can get RAID to work or not. It looks to me like that RAID is a soft-raid (aka winraid) that requires a special driver. See http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html [http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html] & http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=297#raid [http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=297#raid]

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I take it you created the array in the controller bios before attempting to install mandrake? 
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I take it you created the array in the controller bios before attempting to install mandrake?

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Well its supposed to be supported by kernal 2.6 but no love...
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Well its supposed to be supported by kernal 2.6 but no love...

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I've not got them in an array yet. They're operating as 2 independant disks.
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I've not got them in an array yet. They're operating as 2 independant disks.

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I've got this RAID controller with 2 large HDs on that I need to be able to access in linux before I can throw wnidows away forever...<br />
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If I leave the controller on (in bios) mandrake hangs indefinately.<br />
**scratches head**<br />
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Help?
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I've got this RAID controller with 2 large HDs on that I need to be able to access in linux before I can throw wnidows away forever...

If I leave the controller on (in bios) mandrake hangs indefinately.
**scratches head**

Help?

VIA VT6420 RAID controller and Mandrake 10

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