[plug] RAID on a gigabyte 7N400p2 MoBo

[Chris Griffin]

That sounds like the one.
The trouble is I have the system partitioned and dual booting. So, I
wanted to have the hardware do the mirroring at that level and then
just partition and install the OS's.
Although partitioning both disks the same and using Linux software
RAID would be fine for Linux part, I would not think it would be so
easy on the XP side?

On 12/15/05, Bernd Felsche <bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Chris Griffin <griffinster at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >Hopefully getting the subject right (RAID instead of RAIN, bad day) I
> >might get an answer.
>
> >I have a gigabyte 7N400 Pro 2 motherboard and the manual says the
> >hardware RAID should work with Linux. They cite a RedHat 7.3 install.
> >Has anyone actually done this?
> >Can I expect it to work out of the box these days with say Fedora 4?
>
> ITE8212 chipset?
>
> I believe that that is supported directly in the more-recent kernels.
> 2.6.13 and later.
>
> I humbly suggest that you don't use the on-board RAID; just the
> interfaces and employ a software raid (md) instead. That means that
> when the motherboard dies, you can take the drives and plug them
> into another system and be able to read them as before.
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