PATA Raid 0 Not detected

[realstrategos]

I have a MSI K8N Neo Platinum motherboard which is a Nforce3-250 chipset.

I am using a Raid 0 array using two western digital IDE drives.

Fedora sees both drives phisically being there but
does not detect the array and I can only select hda when using manual disk druid.

It gives the not aligned error thing.


The striped array is setup as following
10G FAT32/DOS
10G FAT32/WINXP
10G FAT32<---This is where I want Fedora
120G FAT32/NO OS

WinXP works and sees everything fine.
I used System Commander to set up the partitions

Linux and RAID arrays have only ever worked for me once with Mandrake 8.0, I am using a different system since then, but overall I am really frustrated with RAID only seeming to work with windows.

I really want to get Fedora working, but I havent found anyone with this kind of problem as everyone is dealing with the SATA raid stuff.
Can anyone help me?

[realstrategos]

Is there any way to dumb down the detection of the harddrives so that the OS can only see what the bios wants it to see? I think that is how I got the Mandrake installation to work.

Of note, when I pass hdb=noprobe the align error does not come up.

hda shows 2 partitinos DOS/16 and Free space.

Could this problem be all system commanders fault?

I am using an older version.

[protonos]

Hi,

I am unable to install FC2. The controler is SIl 0680 PATA configured in RAID0 with 4x 80 MB Seagate disks. Windows XP is installed and I have 3 partitions left for installing FC2 :
1°) a 120 MB ext2 in the all beginning ( intended for /boot)
2°) a 30 Gb ext2
3°) a 128 swap

The FC2 installer is unable to detect the raid configuration.

any help would be very appreciated.
tahnx

[protonos]

erratum, SILà680 with RAID0 (stripping) of 4 x 80 GB