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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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!<br>
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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...?<br>
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Chris Griffin wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">So is the hardware RAID likley to give me grief or do you think it
should be fine?
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<pre wrap=""> 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au"><bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au></a>
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Chris Griffin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:griffinster@gmail.com"><griffinster@gmail.com></a> 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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