Hi, I've got Gigabyte GA-7ZXR motherboard with Promise 20265 FastTrack Lite raid controller. After disk failure, I've decided to setup raid 1, bought two Seagate Barracuda IV 40 GB drivers, and configure them with Promise Bios utility. I created 4 Linux and one WinXP Pro NTFS (still waiting for SuperMemo for Linux...) partitions. I restored Linux from backup, changed /dev/hdaX to /dev/ataraid/d0pX in /etc/fstab, modified lilo.conf, and everything run fine. Than I turned off power, disconnected one drive (to simulate drive failure) and ... "oops" during loading ataraid appeared (2.4.19 from Debian). The same oops shows in 2.4.20-ac2. Strongly disappointed, I came to the following question: is it possible (and safe, of course) to use software raid-1 (which I succesfully run on several others computers) for Linux, making /dev/hdeX and /dev/hdgX parts of the software raid array, and simulaneously take advantage of Promise feature in WinXP using FastTrack drivers array? Thanks in advance, -- Marcin
