> We'd more than LOVE to support this software raid out of the > box. Unfortionatly it's not that simple. The biggest issue is (and afaik > nobody has been able to find a way to fix this) that a lot of > people use the ataraid disks as separate disks, while the raid > signatures are still on the disk (eg the controller sees it as raid). > If the installer then uses the disk as raid the entire disk data > is trashed and corrupted. Since a lot of people do this, detecting and > avoiding this pitfall is a critical issue before the installer can use > this properly. > how about adding support to ATA RAID only in "expert" mode? maybe let the user enable it by specifying a special parameter when starting the installation? then only people who are looking for such support will use it.
