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Shouldn't be too bad, though I haven't tried it in practice.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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In general, Windows software RAID has been a bit risky and hardware
RAID has always been less stress!<br>
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<pre wrap="">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> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Chris Griffin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:griffinster@gmail.com"><griffinster@gmail.com></a> writes:
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<pre wrap="">Hopefully getting the subject right (RAID instead of RAIN, bad day) I
might get an answer.
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<pre wrap="">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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<pre wrap="">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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