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[ubuntu] fake raid w/ dual-boot machine... HELP please!

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hey I am just looking to set up my family's new computer over this holiday season and I am curious if anyone has some advice on how to setup a 'fake-raid' (raid using the integrated 'raid' feature of a motherboard) to work with both Ubuntu and Windows on a dual-boot machine. I am currently planning on dual-booting Ubuntu 9.10 and Win7 but the Windows version can change if that happens to make things easier in any way. I would like my two WD Caviar Black TB drives to show up as a single raid drive in both OSs. I read up on this last year a bit and it sounded like a pain but if anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated!! (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 11/12/2009 – Made popular on 11/12/2009

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I have a motherboard with an Intel ICH9R RAID chip. I have an existing RAID 5 setup over three disks which is NTFS formatted. I'm dual booting and I'd like to be able to access the RAID device in both Linux and Windows (and possibly OSX86, if I can ever get the darn thing to work).

Hoping someone can help...

Here is my setup:

4x Western Digital 1TB drives - 200GB RAID 0 (Windows 7 and Apps / Games) - 1.8TB RAID 10 (Data)

Both arrays use all 4 disks.

Ubuntu has its own 80GB drive (/dev/sde).

I had a Windows 7 RC/openSUSE 11.1 dual-boot on this computer running on RAID 1.

When I installed Windows 7 final, somehow it screwed up my RAID 1. I fought with it for a while, but decided to wipe the logical drive, and then go into BIOS and disable RAID. I reinstalled Windows 7 on the HDD, but I have no RAID now.

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Here's some of my specs if they help with anything...

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