Hi Darac, for raid software you can use mdadm. Do you want install system on raid or do you want use raid for data? before creting raid array, write 0 on each sector with dd (man dd). There are different paper on the web for this.
See you. Il giorno 17/ott/2012 17:27, "Darac Marjal" <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> ha scritto: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:19:08PM +0200, steef wrote: > > hi all, > > > > my youngest son gave me two hd's (1 terab. each) included a > > raid-array on ech hd 500 GB; *made by windows7* > > > > how do i get rid of this array? mdadm tells me nothing up till now. > > No, it won't. As far as I know, mdadm will only work with Linux's > software RAID implementation. > > > > > how to handle this? > > > > thanks for all the help i can get here. i put the 2 hd's in a > > machine loaded with sid on a third hd. > > If you don't need the RAID array, just treat the disks as blank. That > is, put a new partition table on them and mkfs them. Windows 7's RAID > won't have put anything permanent on the disks. > >
