you have you create the devices if they're not there. There's a script on the web somewhere with the proper mknod commands to do that. As for NTFS, I read from my win2k partitions just fine under linux. I only mount them read-only though. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Saft" <richard_jonsson@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:24 PM Subject: Re: mounting ntfs partitions from promise raid > 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 > >> > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
