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Hardware RAID1 shows as two drives of the same name

Asked by papagolf

I have a PCI Promise 376 RAID with 2 maxtor SATA 80gb's configured as mirrors.
I have one more 40gb HD where I installed 8.10 and where my programs will reside.
The two drives which should show as one are displayed as 2 separate drives in "Places", Nautilus, and if the volumes are mounted I have two separate icons on the desktop. Not a huge issue but an annoyance all the same! I've only been playing with linux for about 6mos now so please be gentle! Thanks in advance!

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Best nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#1

please review ubuntu's fakeraid faq:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto

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midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#2

Those Fake-Raids are only usefully if a Windows-installation also should have access to the data.

Else a "real" software-raid with mdadm is more of use.
Look into the following link:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=408461

Greetings!

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papagolf (pjgeraci) said : 		#3

This sounds similar to what I'm dealing with, but I'm not installing Ubuntu onto the RAID(which is NTFS btw). Eventually I will convert the file system once I get winders out of the picture. It sounds like dmraid is what I'm looking for but I cant find any instructions on its use post-installation. Everything I can find is how to install on-to a fakeraid, which I'm not doing. I'll call this solved for now while I tinker with dmraid and then I'm off to samba! thanks again!

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papagolf (pjgeraci) said : 		#4

Thanks nhasian, that solved my question.