[Westwales] Windows 1: Linux 0

[David Goodwin]

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Hello!

Right, my understanding of the whole 'motherboard raid' is that it's
normally actually software raid based - hence the need for drivers. Were
it hardware based, you'd have some BIOS like utility to create the RAID
device, and there would be no need for drivers.


I suspect that if you setup a RAID array under Windows it may not be
compatible with a similar RAID 1 array under Linux (I could be wrong
here! I've only ever used hardware RAID when using both OSs).

However, why can't you partition each SATA disk, and use those
partitions as the foundation for your RAID device?

i.e.
/dev/sda1 & /dev/sdb1 -> RAID 0 for Linux
/dev/sda2 & /dev/sdb2 -> RAID 0 for Windows.

Linux definately plays very well with SATA disks - I have couple of PCs
that have SATA RAID 1 (mirrored) file systems.

(I presume it goes without saying that with RAID 0 you're 2x as likely
to loose _all_ your data).

thanks
David.
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David Goodwin

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
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