[plug] RAID on a gigabyte 7N400p2 MoBo

[Chris Griffin]

Sounds like a plan to me. Thanks to all for input.

On 12/16/05, Jonathan Young <jonathan at pcphix.com> wrote:
>  I have to say that I have personally always preferred hardware when it
> comes to RAID, but have never used onboard.  I prefer a standalone
> controller with a separate BIOS onboard and that has never given me any
> trouble.  In my experience RAID has only been a headache when either a
> software solution or a cheaply produced motherboard integrated controller
> have been used.
>
>  Assuming your mainboard is decent (I can't comment on this particular
> occasion) then I would personally still go with the hardware option.  You'll
> find out pretty quickly if it is truly Linux compatible, just do a test run
> before starting anything mission critical.  It should be a fairly black and
> white result.
>
>  An advantage of software RAID is that should a mainboard or controller fail
> you can move the drives to a new system and the mirror remains.  However, I
> have often found software solutions to be more prone to failure that
> hardware, especially in the case of Windows!
>
>  I would still be leaning towards hardware RAID (IMHO) and you'll find out
> pretty quick if it's compatible or not.  Try it with a blank drive first...?
>
>  Chris Griffin wrote:
>
>  So is the hardware RAID likley to give me grief or do you think it
> should be fine?
>
> On 12/16/05, Jonathan Young <jonathan at pcphix.com> wrote:
>
>
>  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:
>
>
>  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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