I have a system based around an MSI K7T Turbo 2 MB, Athlon XP 2600, 1 gig PC133 ram, nVidia GeForce FX 5200 256 meg card, with a two-drive RAID 0 array secondary volume controlled by a 3ware Escalade 7410 RAID controller handling two internally mounted WD Caviar 120 gig drives as a 240 gig RAID 0 array.
The third, primary (system) drive(s) are in Lian Li hard drive bays, as such:
I've had this system for a while now, and I haven't had any serious problems with it or the RAID. The RAID is an NTFS volume. I've run Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 on this system for several years now.
I put an unpartioned drive in an empty bay and installed SuSE Pro 9.2. The installation went fine, and SuSE came up and I finsihed the setup, but I noticed that I could not see the RAID on the KDE desktop. I thought this a bit strange, as I had loaded SuSE 8.2 Personal Edition a few years back (that version was also installed on it's own separate drive) and I could see the NTFS volume and even read & write to it on the SuSE 8.2 setup.
I presumed there must be some setup I have to go through to see the NTFS RAID in this new SuSE 9.2 Pro version, but I paid it no mind at the moment becouse I wasn't in any real immediate need for it.
When I rebooted the system with my XP drive, the RAID volume (which was my E:\ drive in Windows) no longer shows up under MY COMPUTER. I did a quick check of the 3ware driver, and it's loaded and running just fine. I rebooted and went into the 3ware controller setup, and it listed the array and displayed no errors. I reinstalled the driver with the latest one and I still can't see it. I blew the Linux install and installed XP from scratch along with the latest 3ware driver and I still can't see it.
So I need to know what SuSE Pro 9.2 has done that I can't see this RAID from either OS. Needless to say, I'm concerned about this issue.
If you can't see it from either OS then it's a good chance it's a hardware problem. Perhaps you should take the card out, reboot to XP, then shutdown, put the card back in (maybe a different slot?) and then reboot to xp again.
Also see if you can get the card + drives working in another computer.
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