Hi,
I bought a Revodrive!
It's an 80gb model, which means that there are 2 40gb sata2 ssds on one card in a 'fakeraid' raid 0 array. (so it's an 80gb logical disc).
I currently have the system set up to boot from a 32gb OCZ Vertex SATA 2 device, and I would like to clone the vertex to the revodrive, so that I can have my OS on the revodrive without having to reinstall windows fresh on the revodrive by itself.
Since Clone Zilla uses Linux, and seems to see the revodrive as 2 40gb discs rather than one 80gb disc (even though it's formatted ntfs as an 80gb logical drive), is it even possible to do this? If so, what would be the steps involved?
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I have this exact same problem. If I drop to a shell and run:
modprobe dm_mod
I get the 80GB RAID 0 disk and partition objects in /dev/mapper/si*
However, this module does not appear to auto-load when CloneZilla starts and none of the CloneZilla menus show /dev/mapper/si* as a valid disk option.
fdisk -l
shows the dm-* disk objects, but it appears that CloneZilla just won't pick them up. I still only get options for /dev/sd* disks, which are the RAID members and not what I actually want.
If only I was a little smarter it would seem I could use CloneZilla with the /dev/mapper/si* disk and get a valid backup/restore of my system going.
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Not sure if it will go anywhere. Our RevoDrives require device mapper in order to read the "fakeraid" RAID 0 set so we need to both load dm_mod and the CloneZilla shell scripts & regexes need to be able to recognize the /dev/dm-* or the /dev/mapper/* device files as valid hard drives. Currently only /dev/sdx / hdx / vdx will work.
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No progress actually. However, we are about to merging some codes from Miracle linux, and after that, it will be more straightforward to work on this. It might take 3 months…
Steven.
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Hi,
I bought a Revodrive!
It's an 80gb model, which means that there are 2 40gb sata2 ssds on one card in a 'fakeraid' raid 0 array. (so it's an 80gb logical disc).
I currently have the system set up to boot from a 32gb OCZ Vertex SATA 2 device, and I would like to clone the vertex to the revodrive, so that I can have my OS on the revodrive without having to reinstall windows fresh on the revodrive by itself.
Since Clone Zilla uses Linux, and seems to see the revodrive as 2 40gb discs rather than one 80gb disc (even though it's formatted ntfs as an 80gb logical drive), is it even possible to do this? If so, what would be the steps involved?
I have this exact same problem. If I drop to a shell and run:
modprobe dm_mod
I get the 80GB RAID 0 disk and partition objects in /dev/mapper/si*
However, this module does not appear to auto-load when CloneZilla starts and none of the CloneZilla menus show /dev/mapper/si* as a valid disk option.
fdisk -l
shows the dm-* disk objects, but it appears that CloneZilla just won't pick them up. I still only get options for /dev/sd* disks, which are the RAID members and not what I actually want.
If only I was a little smarter it would seem I could use CloneZilla with the /dev/mapper/si* disk and get a valid backup/restore of my system going.
I posted a bug report here:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=671650&aid=3305901&group_id=115473
Not sure if it will go anywhere. Our RevoDrives require device mapper in order to read the "fakeraid" RAID 0 set so we need to both load dm_mod and the CloneZilla shell scripts & regexes need to be able to recognize the /dev/dm-* or the /dev/mapper/* device files as valid hard drives. Currently only /dev/sdx / hdx / vdx will work.
As mentioned here:
http://clonezilla.org/
Limitations:
…
Software RAID/fake RAID is not supported by default. It's can be done manually only.
…
Steven.
What's the situation so far? I am now in the same situation, with a 120Gb drive seen as two 80Gb partitions….
Thanks
Nicola
No progress actually. However, we are about to merging some codes from Miracle linux, and after that, it will be more straightforward to work on this. It might take 3 months…
Steven.