[plug] RAID on a gigabyte 7N400p2 MoBo

[Jonathan Young]

Shouldn't be too bad, though I haven't tried it in practice.

In theory, match the partitions on both disks, laid out how you would 
prefer for Linux plus whatever space / partitions you are allocating for 
Windows. Next, install Windows and set up it's software raid so that the 
two windows partitions (one per disk) are mirrored and the other 
partitions are left untouched and empty for your Linux installation. 
Install Linux and set up it's software RAID... done!  So really.. the 
Windows side of things shouldn't be an issue.

However, hardware RAID is always going to be better because you would 
really only have to worry about maintaining one drive and set of 
partitions as you normally do and just expect the other drive to be 
matching it.

In general, Windows software RAID has been a bit risky and hardware RAID 
has always been less stress!


Chris Griffin wrote:

>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:
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>>Chris Griffin <griffinster at gmail.com> writes:
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>>>Hopefully getting the subject right (RAID instead of RAIN, bad day) I
>>>might get an answer.
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>>>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?
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>>ITE8212 chipset?
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>>I believe that that is supported directly in the more-recent kernels.
>>2.6.13 and later.
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>>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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