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[mbiggs <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can't help with anything regarding RAID and/or windows, but in case any of
this helps:

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, DrKarl wrote:
>      For Linux I would like to try to install Arch Linux, but if it becomes
> too difficult I'll try something more mainstream like Debian or Ubuntu.

For the record, I'm successfully using Arch Linux on my Z1390.  To get the
hardware support working nice, I actually use Adam's "Ubuntu" kernel
packages, I just unpackage them and put his kernel (vmlinuz and initrd.img
files) into /boot and add it as an entry to /boot/grub/menu.lst .  My grub
line looks like this:

title  arch :: 2.6.37-6-vaioz [ubuntu kernel]
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.37-6-vaioz root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/ae15ff25-6a49-4002-ab50-d3655e21c5bc ro acpi_osi="!Windows 2006" acpi_backlight=vendor
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.37-6-vaioz

I also take Adam's upstart script and place it as /etc/rc.local .  For
battery life, I configured laptop-mode-tools to turn on most of its options,
and I use stamina mode almost exclusively (which means at boot I have to
echo "stamina" to /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/speed_stamina).  In
/etc/rc.conf I blacklist two modules:
MODULES=(!evbug !nouveau)

but that's only because I haven't bothered experimenting with the nvidia
card, because I almost always care exclusively about battery life.
(The evbug was just throwing spurious messages into the syslog.)

*shrug* don't remember what else I did to make things happy.  Best of luck!

Oh, and note that Adam's latest experimental kernel (the 2.6.37-6 one)
doesn't seem to wake up from sleep mode, so I recommend starting out with
one of the stabler earlier ones.

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mbiggs