Hi Vrinda,
I hadn't forgotten about you, I've just been rather busy.
> I am using 2.4.20 kernel with LDM support.
Good, that contains the new driver.
> This is my configuration. I have XP running on a
> system which has 2 disk with software RAID 0(stripe
> set).The master disk has a primary dos partition in
> addition to the NTFS raid volume.
When you boot you should see something like:
Partition check:
[LDM] hda1 hda2
[LDM] hdb1
> Both the disks have been converted to dynamic disks.
OK, once a disk has been converted to a dynamic disk, the change
is absolute. There are no more primary or logical disks.
> When I try to mount the dos partition on the dynamic
> disk, I get an error , unable to read bootsector
> error.
If you want to mount the striped disk, then there's another
step. The LDM driver breaks the disk into pieces. Then you need
the MD driver to join the RAID pieces together.
The driver summary: the disk driver finds the hardware, LDM breaks it
into pieces, MD reassembles them.
Have a read of the Software RAID HOWTO and also my (incomplete)
LDM FAQ (there's an example /etc/raidtab file).
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ldm.html#4.0
> Is there anyway , I can mount the dos partition on the
> dynamic disk?
Yes. Once you've assembled the raid, you will be able to mount
the new device: /dev/md0 as an ntfs volume.
This email is obviously cut'n'pasted. I hope it makes sense :-)
Cheers,
FlatCap (Rich)
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