Taking the plunge (again) into the world of linux, and making a couple of hardware changes whilst im at it, but it seems that Ubuntu doesnt like my fake RAID on my D975XBX motherboard ( 2 x 300GB maxtors in RAID 1)... anyone have any ideas how to get it to recognise the array, rather than just the individual drives? Everythings set up fine in the RAID BIOS, and ill eventually want to put Vista x64 on here too....

Dont use the onboard raid.

Use mdadm in linux to do your raid.

Quote from: TRBDont use the onboard raid.

Use mdadm in linux to do your raid.

will be dual-booting and hence need to use the onboard.

a friend of mine is coming over this evening to go through a walk-through that google turned up with me

Now, I know there used to be problems with dual booting windows and any linux on a raid array (With onboard motherboard raid) It used to be the case you could run sw raid on one, but not the other - I know Grub used to do something silly.

Bear in mind I used linux in Anger in 1996 before I started on BSD so this may well not be the case any more.

yeah, it was causing loads of problems so ive installed ubuntu 64 on one drive and vista 64 on the other (in case one drive dies)... i dont need RAID, it was only for stating on irc.

Ok, how many hdds are you going to be using in the machine?

The easiest option, if you *have* to have raid1 for both windows and linux would be to have one pair using your onboard for windows easiness, and the other setup for mdadm linux ease.

Then setup grub (or lilo) to boot the correct set on booting whichever.

If you are only using the 2 hdds for a single raid1 pair, then good luck.  Use onboard fake raid if you want, but you get none of the niceties that you get if you use the linux software raid.