Yes RR404 is a fake raid card, but there is still hope for recent linux to recognize the array on that card. Modern linux handles fake raid via dmraid which supports hpt374 and rr454. RR404 is basically a BIOS updated RR454 with fake raid5 enabled, so there might be a slight chance that dmraid can …

Unfortunately I don't have an MVP3 platform. Currently I own a P5A-B and a P5S-VM. P5S-VM is based on SiS530 chipset and officially supports 133MHz FSB and 1/4 PCI divider. My K6-3+ 450APZ can run 133x4.5 on it. Onboard cache disabled as well as onboard video chip. Oddly the CPU refuses to work …

Perhaps clonezilla is unable to load the driver for your raid card. Try using ubuntu live disk and dd the raid to the network share.

I got a pretty nice Raptor GFX8P which is a well built 3DLabs Permedia2V PCI card. The problem is it wasn't made for PC, but SUN systems rather. It won't show anything during boot or under DOS, but does work in XP with default Permedia2 driver though. So I guess the card is PC compatible but the VGA …

Recently I did a little experiment on running G450 on an XP box. Surprisingly the latest driver does not have any 3D support, so I decided to launch a test over different versions of G450 drivers and check their capability on D3D and OpenGL support. It turns out Matrox pulled off 3D support for G450 …