BIOS Raid 0 Fails FSCK on Install of 11.2

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I tried to upgrade my system last evening from 11.1 to 11.2. I am running AMD X86_64, Silicon Image Raid Controller with two 250GB drives. On my 11.1 install, the installation properly recognized the raid as a single raid 0 totalling 465gb of space. I was able to format to ext3 with no issues.

On installing 11.2, it also reported the configuration properly and I re-formatted the partition as an ext4 filesystem to take advantage of the new system. It formatted with no reported errors and install proceeded normally.

Then, came the initial boot. The raid failed the fsck test stating the superblock was corrupt and the volume appeared to be an ext2 parition that was not correctly identified. I didn’t know how to correct, so again reinstalled, this type using ext3 on that partition. It exhibited the same behavior. All other partitions passed as clean ext4 partitions.

At this point I am going back to version 11.1 and it again installed fine reformatting the raid to an ext3 and rebooting with no issues.

Is the driver no longer properly supported in kernel 2.6.31? Any help or insight appreciated.

Thanks.

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I’m getting the same error (superblock corrupt at initial boot) with a software-raid 5 over 4 sata drives (500GB each) (11.2 and 11.3 MS2, ext3, AMD 64bit)
System is a Athlon II 245 on a Asus 760G-Mainboard.

I won’t install 11.1 cause this has the samba-bug (everytime you umount a samba-share, load-average goes up by 1:()

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My “fault” was, i didnt reformat the hdds prior to install the raid.

I took the hdds from a NAS so there was a software-raid on them before, (so maybe a superblock from that era survivedlol!).
Now its working fine.