mounting a striped raid array

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:51:26PM EST, Nathan Herholdt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having some trouble with a striped raid array, I cannot seem to mount it.
> 
> It has previously run on windows but we UPGRADED to Ubuntu! All worked fine on windows, but I'd like it to run on Ubuntu too!
> 
> When I try to mount it I receive the error message "$MFT has invalid magic. Failed to load..."
> 
> Where do I go from here?

I am assuming you are talking about one of those raid devices where you set up the RAID in the BIOS, and install Windows drivers that transparently make use of it. This RAID, otherwise known as fake RAID, can be accessed using a tool called dmraid. I've never used it myself, but it can read many of the BIOS fake RAID implementations that exist out there.

Hope this helps.
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