Re: mounting ntfs partitions from promise raid

"Bob Saft" <richard_jonsson@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:24:28 +0000

OK, so I'm out of luck =(. This may be a bit offtopic, but what hinders the 
development of ntfs v5 support under linux, lack of information? Is there 
something I can do to help evolve the ntfs driver? I have some programming 
experience in c++ and some other langs, but haven't done any development 
under linux (yet).

And now for an on-topic question: How come I can see the individual drives 
on the raid, but not the raid itself (/dev/ataraid/dXpY)? I have the 
pdc-features statically compiled in a 2.4.19 kernel. Even though ntfs isn't 
supported, I should still be able to see the partition table on the raid, 
right? I can see the partition table on hde.

Richard,

NTFS under win2k is NTFS version 5.0
linux supports NTFS up through version 3.0.

scott

Bob Saft wrote:
I have 2 WD 80GB disks in a raid 0+2 raid (stripe) configuration on a 
Promise Fasttrak100 controller. I recently migrated to slackware 8.1 from 
win2000 and tried to get the raid working ever since. Today I finally 
managed to see the individual drives - hde and hdf - on the raid, using 
the 2.4.19 kernel, with "special fasttrack feature" disabled (thanks 
Martin). However, how do I make the old windows ntfs partitions show up on 
/dev/ataraid/d0 ? The last thing I want to do is to burn about 150GB to 
cd-r (would be around 200 cd's) just to copy it all back again, besides, I 
still want to be able to access the raid from within windows till I got 
everything else woorking with my linux installation. I apreciate any help 
and information.

Regards / Richard

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