Confusing SATA RAID problem

[djpenguin]

I've got an ASUS P4PE with a Promise 80376 SATA RAID controller. I've had a pair of Seagate ST380023AS drives connected and configured as a RAID 0 for about a year. I partitioned the drives under Windows XP Pro using PowerQuest's Partition Magic as follows:

16GB/4GB/40GB/40GB/30GB/20GB

All of the partitions are FAT32

Recently I installed Mandrake 10.0, and I've been having a bit of difficulty with those drives. First of all, they show up as two drives, not one large RAID (sda and sdb.) Second, only the 16GB partition is showing up, and it shows up at the beginning of sda. DrakX (the Mandrake disk partitioning tool) says that the partition tables for sda and sdb are too corrupted to read, and asks to format them.

I have searched around, but haven't been able to find anyone else experiencing a similar problem. Formatting the RAID outright with the LLF util is not an option, I have a lot of data on there that I need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[hard candy]

You may need to enable a module for the Promise controller, it may be trying to use the wrong driver. I would look through Mandrake's docs and forums and see if you need to build a kernel for supporting that particular contoller. Unfortunately, what you label the controller (Promise 80376 SATA RAID) is not what the Promise site calls it when you search for it on their site.
This (http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1787/5581)
article will help explain the status of the drivers in the kernel, and since it was posted 12/2003, i'm sure more progress has been made.
To sum it up:
1. Find out exactly which kernel module is the driver for this controller and if it is enabled by default in Mandrake's kernel.
2. If the module is not present, need to build a kernel. Or you may be able to install an upgraded kernel to take care of this. Or there may be an rpm available.
3. Also, there was a utility called the array utility listed on the Promise site for Suse and Redhat. Do you need this utility?

Actually, number 1 should be- Back up your data now before doing anything else, both for WinXp and Mandrake.

[hard candy]

Here is the utility I was talking about:

FastTrak SX4000 SuSE 8.0 Array Utility
Brief:Linux utility to -
- create, delete, & monitor arrays
- rebuild/synchronize arrays
- enable
URL:/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=94&category=utility&os=100
Date/Time: 2002/8/23

[djpenguin]

I'll look into that array utility

The controller is also called the FastTrak 376 (native) or the FastTrak TX2 S150 (PCI)

It's got two SATA ports and one ATA133 port.

[djpenguin]

This (http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=94&familyId=2) is the SX4000. It's a RAID5 PATA controller. I don't know if the utility will work with such a different controller.