HOWTO - Discovering and using existing sata raid (eg sil3112)

[config]

Ok. The latest version of dmraid (rc 13), installed from source, that is not yet available in repositories, fixes all this stuff .

[kilgore731]

The worst part for me is that I did this once and now I can't figure out the problem.

I've got a sata raid I'm trying to mount in feisty. dmraid is installed and I have the two drives, pdc_ghfaeeaj and pdc_ghfaeeaj1, showing up in /dev/mapper. What I can't remember is how to mount them.

these are the disks...

Disk /dev/sde: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sde1               1       77826   625137313+  42  SFS

Disk /dev/sdf: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdf doesn't contain a valid partition table

Any pointers would be appreciated.

[JPMATRIX]

So I tried

sudo dmraid -ay

Gave me this:

RAID set "nvidia_ecaaibca" already active
RAID set "nvidia_ecaaibca1" already active
RAID set "nvidia_ecaaibca5" already active
RAID set "nvidia_ecaaibca6" already active
RAID set "nvidia_ecaaibca7" already active

I have a raid 0 with 2 250Gb hard drives in nvidia_ecaaibca and nvidia_ecaaibca1 (presumably this is port 0 and 1)

So the code in activateraid file shuld be like this:

dmraid -ay -v
mount -t ntfs -o users,owner,ro,umask=000/dev/mapper/nvidia_ecaaibca /mnt/windows
mount -t ntfs -o users,owner,ro,umask=000/dev/mapper/nvidia_ecaaibca1 /mnt/windows

Is this right?