On Saturday 10 December 2005 12:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4
> chipset. 

Make that an NForce 4 chipset.  Got confused between graphics and 
motherboards.  :)

> here 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
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