[Westwales] Windows 1: Linux 0

[Colin Sauze]

David Goodwin wrote:
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> Hello!
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> However, why can't you partition each SATA disk, and use those
> partitions as the foundation for your RAID device?
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If you do this, can grub/lilo boot off it? This would require them to be 
aware of software raid, especially in RAID 0 configurations. I've setup 
a few raid systems and always had a small OS or /boot partition which 
wasn't raided and then a big raid partition for all my data. This wastes 
a small amount of space on the second drive and means you loose the 
advantages of raid on that boot partition.