Image Software on nVidia RAID arrays

Question

Has anyone been able to get a disk imaging program to work with the nVidia RAID array?  I have tried Acronis True Image, Norton Ghost 9.0 and the old Drive Image. I have been unable get the rescue/recovery disks to recognize the RAID Array. With Acronis, it appears that they don't have the Linux drivers for the RAID array.  Ghost 9.0 is supposed to support RAID arrays, but when I try to load the drivers, I get a message that it can't find nvraid.sys, despite the fact that I supply that file on the floppy disk. I spent 1.5 hours on the phone with Symantec Technical Support and their only answer was that I would receive a phone call from a supervisor in 3 days.  
I can get Norton Ghost to work from within windows, but in order to restore an image of my C: drive I need to gain access to the RAID array from the recovery disk.

Answer 1

I have sort of got it to work with ghost9 .
I have written a plug-in for nvraid/nvide for the bartWinPE cd made with PEBuilder 3032.
V2I Images can then be browsed with imagebrowser and files/catalogs be restored
to arrays partitions .
The thing that does not yet work properly is the V2I protector executable cause the bart plug-in for .Net gives problems .(not sorted out this yet)
The BartWinPE cd is also of course equipped with ghost9 plugin .
So basicly the PC is booted with bootable Windows PE cd (like the ghost9 CD) ,
windows runs from cd&ram . And all the nvraid arrays is visible .Restoration made
with V2I image browser .
The plug-in ( INF file ) :
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; PE Builder v3 plug-in INF file
; NVIDIA RAID (Windows XP)
; Created by Syar2003
[Version]
Signature= "$Windows NT$"
[PEBuilder]
Name="DSK_NvRaid"
Enable=1
[SourceDisksFiles]
nvraid.sys=4,,1
nvatabus.sys=4,,1
[SetValue]
"txtsetup.sif","SourceDisksFiles","nvraid.sys", "1,,,,,,_x,4,1,0,0"
"txtsetup.sif","SourceDisksFiles","NvAtaBus.sys", "1,,,,,,_x,4,1,0,0"
"txtsetup.sif","SCSI.Load","nvatabus", "nvatabus.sys,4"
"txtsetup.sif","SCSI.Load","nvraid", "nvraid.sys,4"
"txtsetup.sif","SCSI","nvatabus", """NVIDIA NForce Storage Controller"""
"txtsetup.sif","SCSI","nvraid", """NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER"""
"txtsetup.sif","HardwareIdsDatabase","PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_008E", """nvatabus"""
"txtsetup.sif","HardwareIdsDatabase","PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0085", """nvatabus"""
"txtsetup.sif","HardwareIdsDatabase","PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00D5", """nvatabus"""
"txtsetup.sif","HardwareIdsDatabase","PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00EE", """nvatabus"""
"txtsetup.sif","HardwareIdsDatabase","PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E3", """nvatabus"""
"txtsetup.sif","HardwareIdsDatabase","PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E5", """nvatabus"""
"txtsetup.sif","HardwareIdsDatabase","*_NVRAIDBUS", """nvraid"""
"txtsetup.sif","HardwareIdsDatabase","GenNvRaidDisk", """nvraid"""
If the BartWinPE cd is equipped with ghost8 you should be able to restore
full disks/partitions with the *.gho extension .
But then the images must be buildt with ghost8 (from the BartWinPE cd first).
Though i have not had the time to test that yet .
Links:
Plug-in repository
http://www.reatogo.de/BartPE/BartPE_plugins/repository.htm
PeBuilder
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/