Asus A8V + Promise SATA RAID

[MikeHuk]

hi there, I have my FC4 install on a non-RAID sata drive using the via controller, absolutely no problems there.

However I would like to access my windows paritions stored on a Raid 0 Array (using the promise sata/raid controller) for grabbing my MP3's etc.

Can anyone shed some light as to how this is possible, has anyone managed to do it?

ATARAID and DMRAID have been suggested, however I have no idea where to start with these.

Regards,
Mike.

[DeathWishR]

First off, is this a Promise card or are you using the onboard raid?

I'll assume you mean a specialty Raid card: find the drivers for your promise card--start here or here.
You'll need to put the ko files (recommend you compile yourself) into /lib/modules/{kernel name}/kernel/drivers/scsi/. Run (/sbin/)modprobe with the name of the driver. This should enable your sata controller. Next you need to grab the latest version of dmraid for your kernel (available here ).

Run dmraid -ay. Check under /dev/mapper -- you should see something like driver_ghbbjeifsd and driver_ghbbjeifsd1 where driver is the name of that ko file you grabbed. mount driver_ghbbjeifsd1 to wherever you want. Voila