Tony <tonymisner1983@yahoo.com> writes:

I just built a new rig with 2 10,000rpm SATA hard drives. I have them setup in RAID 0 in WinXP Pro. I am

This is a software RAID setup and the Linux 2.6 kernel does not handle this correctly. It will attach each disk as a single disk which might break your setup. There should be an sdb article on portal.suse.de about this with more details, Andreas

totally new to any linux, but I thought I would give SuSE a try since I like playing with new things and its 64bit compatible. Anyways, I have yet to install SuSE 9.1 cause when I start the installation one of the first messages goes something like this:

This system has at least one hard disk w/ a RAID configuration sold by the BIOS as RAID that is in fact a software RAID. (then the last part of the message states) If you do an installation on these Disks your RAID configuration and any Data on the RAID will be lost!

Now I was just wondering if this means it will erase WinXP and my other files off my drives? Should I just continue through the normal installation? I am completely new but would like to experience the whole linux world. I have AMD64 3200++ and SuSE Linux Pro 9.1. Please help me out. Thanks, tony.

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