[Fixed] Mounting Software RAID in 9.04

[DarkStar]

I know I've asked this already, but I need some help fairly urgently.

I have a software RAID0 created in Vista (stupid idea, I know) and I'm having no short of a lot of trouble mounting it in Ubuntu.

I've tried using mdadm (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=833653) but have had no luck, as when it comes to mounting the 'drive' is tells me there's no NTFS Handle.

Is there anyone else here who could offer some help, please?

[Ron2K]

I don't think anything is going to work here, short of finding a mate with a suitably sized external hard drive that you can copy stuff to while you nuke and reinstall. The problem is that dynamic disks (which I presume you are using, since you said "Vista" and "software RAID") are MS only.

[DarkStar]

Yeah, I am using dynamic disks. Thing is, I'm positive it's possible (since in the link I gave someone got it working on XP)

[DarkStar]

Whoooooh! Go linux!

I figured it out, and it was a simple user error.


Basically, when using the command:

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sudo mdadm --build /dev/md0 --chunk=64 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

It gave me the error.
However, if I switched the order of the drives, then it worked without a single bloody hitch!

The new command was now

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]sudo mdadm --build /dev/md0 --chunk=64 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1