I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. The machine and disks were used as a Windows XP workstation. Now that Windows installation is hosed up and I'm using the opportunity to covert this machine to a Gentoo desktop.
However there is some data on the drive that I'd like to recover before blowing the disk away. I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for sdb. I can not mount either. I assume this is because Knoppix is seeing each drive individually instead of the one logical striped drive it is. Is there some magic I can perform at the boot prompt to get Knoppix to see the two individual drives as one logical striped drive? I can't recover the data from booting Windows because it's all screwed up and reboots itself shortly after logon. Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
