NTFS RAID in Linux?

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I recently started making the move from Windows to Linux, it's something I've been meaning to do for a while really. There are still files and settings that I need to move across etc but more importantly I want my hardware (striped) raid array that is formatted as NTFS to be read in Linux. Try as I might I just can't mount the damn volume I really really don't want to re-format it as there's so much data on there it would take many days to move out and back again. My distro is Sabayon x64 3.4e if it makes a difference.

Appreciate your help.

 

[AWBbox]

'real' hardware RAID will show up as SCSI disks (/dev/sd*)

The vast majority of onboard RAID chipsets are software-RAID, for which 'dmraid -ay' will detect and create device mapper nodes for the majority of them. Run that and it should make some device names in /dev/mapper/ corresponding to your RAID logical volumes and partitions, you can then mount them where you want.

The in-kernel NTFS support is reliable only for reading NTFS, to write/modify NTFS, you'll need the ntfs-3g package.

dmraid -ay comes up with command not found. The Sabayon forums are down for upgrade and the live help irc channel is wisper quiet. I'm pretty stuck with this still. I'd googled long and hard before posting here but nothing I found has worked yet.

 

[AWBbox]

yes, i was using the command as root using su, password etc.