How do I get PCLOS to recognise RAID partitions?

[Revhead]

I'm sure this has been asked before but . . .
I wanted to install PCLOS to one of the partitions on my XP PC.
I have a couple of SATA drives installed in a RAID o array plus a coupe of IDE drives.
I was planning to install PCLOS to one of the IDE drives.
Live CD boots but while it recognises the two RAID discs as separate entities, it doesn't not recognise the RAID 0 array which is divided into several Windows partitions.
The RAID array is based on hardware SIlicon Image SIL 3112 controller?

[Was_Just19]

Have you searched using Synaptic for packages to enable raid use?

[neomaxi]

I'm sure this has been asked before but . . .
I wanted to install PCLOS to one of the partitions on my XP PC.
I have a couple of SATA drives installed in a RAID o array plus a coupe of IDE drives.
I was planning to install PCLOS to one of the IDE drives.
Live CD boots but while it recognises the two RAID discs as separate entities, it doesn't not recognise the RAID 0 array which is divided into several Windows partitions.
The RAID array is based on hardware SIlicon Image SIL 3112 controller?

I have this  same issue?  I want to install PCLINUX on over my mint 11 installtion which is on my RAID 0  .

But when I  boot with live CD, it only reconizes the two separate drives???  every other distro recognized the RAID 0 as one drive?

what  do I need to do  to have the live CD recognize 1 drives, so I can see my existing EXT4 partition?

[Just17]

Maybe install dmraid and/or mdadm and dependencies through Synaptic ..... I am not at all sure as I do not use raid here.

[TommyS]

I'm also interested in getting RAID-0 functioning. I have multiple RAID-0 Arrays on my ICH10R Southbridge. Most distros detect the arrays properly. Mandriva and PCLinuxOS do not. I suspect it will require a live boot and an installing some sort of package(s) prior to the install. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what package(s). Any insight would be helpful.

[TommyS]

I'm also interested in getting RAID-0 functioning. I have multiple RAID-0 Arrays on my ICH10R Southbridge. Most distros detect the arrays properly. Mandriva and PCLinuxOS do not. I suspect it will require a live boot and an installing some sort of package(s) prior to the install. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what package(s). Any insight would be helpful.

Well, I attempted this. Here is my result, illustrated with screenshots.

Install dmraid/mdadm and required dependencies. Logout. Login.


Launched installer and error when scanning drives and partions on sdc


Error continues when scanning drives and partions on sdd


Details of RAID-0 Array I want to install to


Details on other RAID Arrays/Drives


I know my drives aren't bad or corrupted. I have installed Windows and other distros on them multiple times. It's displaying an error on 1 drive of each RAID-0 array.

What do I do next? :\

[dvhenry]

First, I would like to make it clear that I don't use RAID, and the following is no more than a suggestion based on seeing this as a standard hardware issue. And if not relevant/appropriate should be ignored.

In PCLOS I would run lsmod and lspci -nnk and check dmesg  
I would then run the same commands in at least one of the distros' known to work.
Once it is determined which modules are missing I would attempt to create a remastered CD that includes the modified kernel.
I would also request the PCLinuxOS team add this to the ISO, giving them the details I used to get this working.