Here i go again, Linux what flavour?

[LeperousDust]

Stan my one big piece of advice would be don't do this Far far far too much faffing about, i'm sure you'd rather do anything than this

So i've whittled the hardware problem i think down to a dodgy PATA to SATA connector. Thats unplugged at the minute. I've also stopped using the promise controller for the time being (only because i was trying to rule that out but ive not reactivated it yet).

Anyway now my rocketraid card detects the drives (3 of them) ubuntu boots super quick, and everything seems dandy. fdisk suggests otherwise. None of the 3 (formmated and raid tagged) drives appear. WTF? Theyre in the Hardware Information GUI window, all rosey. The terminal kinda freezes (well it doesn't but i can't actually give it any more inputs but i can type in it, whats this called?) If i shut it down and load up another terminal session same thing happens. Keeps freezing where it would show the 3 drives?

Help my please because this is slowly driving me into the ground. I want to offload all my stuff on the lappy (RELIABLY!) to this computer so i can format this laptop to multi boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP. But the only thing that has enough space would be the RAID config i'd have set up... Unless i just use one of the single drives which would make data juggling fun later on too (i'd rather not.).

Cheers