Any Clevo D901C owners gotten RAID 0 to work in Ubuntu?

I have finally gotten Ubuntu 7.10 to boot into a desktop. (using it now, ethernet seems to work, wifi I'm not sure, but it did see my router's SSID)
The 64bit version never would fully boot to the desktop, only to some command prompt, after it gave me the option to try to set up the display resolution. (it succeeded in going into 1920x1200, and recognized 2 graphics cards, why it didn't even try to work is beyond me)

Anyway I'm using the 32bit version right now, and I have installed dmraid, but it does not seem to work at all. I have gone into the terminal and typed in the commands, but its not reading the RAID.

After some searching I found this page, and the next step would be to go ask for help on the Ubuntu forums. (probably won't get any)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidDebug

Before I try to manually generate the files and wait for help, has anyone here with the same laptop gotten Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10 to recognize their RAID 0?

I know about all of the partitioning stuff, as I have setup linux before on other PCs around the house to pay with, but have never set it up on a RAID before.

I have the P965 and ICH8R.

 

You have gotten farther than I did. But I admit I just didn't bother and run a virtual machine for most of what I do. What did work was everything but raid when I looked at it. I did not try any special buttons or the card reader. If I remember right I did get the camera to work as well. I will be looking into this more later as I prefer Ubuntu to anything windows related for most of what I do. I just don't want to have to reinstall all of my games again.

I think 7.04 is more stable than 7.10 I am thinking I might try that next. As I have located my iso files again. But that will probably be a month or so away as I am trying to organize all my information again.

Edit:

Ok after reading some of this I might give it a try tonight or tomorrow. It does not look complicated and it would be nice to see this running at its full potential. I will update after playing with it.

 

The card reader worked for me (at least a micro SD card did). I also tried fedora 8 32 and 64 bit. The 32 bit booted up just fine like ubuntu 32bit, but the logical drive manager or whatever still didn't see the RAID. I read somewhere from this guy that Fedora saw his Intel RAID where Ubuntu didn't. But neither works for me. Fedora 64bit never finished loading, but it might have been a bad burn. (I'll check later)

I tried to install it on a USB 2.0 hard drive, but then grub borked my windows partition on my RAID. I was able to fix it though.
The laptop should be able to boot from the USB drive.
I think linux can actually see my first 50 GB partition on the RAID though. Both distros that I got to boot to a desktop showed a 50 GB partition that I am pretty sure was my windows partition.
I have 4 partitions set up on my RAID, 2x50 GB OS paritions, and 2x300 GB ones for games/programs and the other for DVD rips/video capturing, ect.
I would like to put Ubuntu on my second 50 GB partition, if I don't install 64bit XP on there first.

Linux also works with my xbox 360 HD DVD drive, but I wasn't smart enough to remember to stick an HD DVD in there. But it saw a regular DVD just fine.

I also tried Centos 64bit gnome just for kicks as Pieter recommended it to me.
He is the guy that mods INFs for LaptopVideo2go, and he said one of our server's runs it.
Being an enterprise OS, I thought that maybe it would have better RAID support; but I was wrong. For some reason I never got it to boot into a live CD desktop, but it did run the installation. This makes it the first 64 bit linux I have gotten to actually seem to work right.

 

I am going to backup my vista install and then repartition my hd so can I play around and not have to worry about it to much. I just don't want download stuff again. I play a lot steam games and I have really crappy satellite internet connection that is being over utilized at the moment. After I get the backup done I will retry this. I have gotten 64 bit Ubuntu running on my other machines without problems but I have not tried it with raid to date. It seemed fairly stable butit was 7.04 and so far I think it was a better release package. But I am getting used to 7.10 now and seems to be better than my initial thoughts. It like everything else something new and takes a bit of getting used to.

 

Might check this out: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-July/008898.html

It's possible to boot from a software RAID under Linux, never tried it though.