I'm going to try it your way, but I'll need to test this out. I'll be keeping you updated on my progress, I've got a lot to do, but at least I'm on the path.
To answer one of your queries, no, I'm trying to get out of Windows. I have another box, that's a P4 with SATA drives in a RAID 0 config running XP. That's good enough. This time I'll be moving slow and deliberate, so I'll need to read up on these subjects and get back to you. Thanks to you and Ben for all your help, it's good to have friends! Brian On Nov 15, 2007 10:12 PM, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 0 is striping, 1 is mirroring. Easiest way to remebmer: 0 means > 0 percent chance of recovery in failure, 1 is 1 chance. > > If you're sharing with Windows and an onboard controller you're > going to have to do softRAID. True hardware RAID controllers > make the individual drives transparent to the OS. Personally, > I'd think there would be a much lower chance of screw-up with a > hardware controller vs trying softRAID when running multiple > operating systems. The onboard and/or inexpensive RAID > controllers aren't true hardware RAID and linux will see > seperate drives though Windows is setup to show one drive > because you've loaded a driver. My only suggestion would be to > be careful if you're running Windows and linux on the same > softRAID array. If you have a separate pair of drives for each > array then go hog wild or scrounge Ebay for a 4 port 3Ware. > > That be all, > Mr O. > > --- Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My suggestion is to avoid use of the hardware raid, and use > > software raid > > via linux. > > Also, be familiar with and refer to google's wealth :) > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Raid > > http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_software_raid > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto ("Fake" raid > > is soft raid, > > nothing really fake about it) > > I don't know why software RAID does not get more respect these > > days. When > > processors were just babies, > > hardware raid was needed for reasonable performance, but now > > soft raid is > > really fast, unless you're comparing > > it with enterprise-grade NAS setups. IMO soft raid is fine > > for non-SCSI > > RAIDs :) > > Basically, if you can/need-to afford SCSI, you prolly want a > > hardware > > controller. Also if you need a BIG array, > > or even anything beyond 3 or 4 drives. > > > ben > > > > PS - you do mention RAID 1 there as well; although it sounds > > like you're > > wanting 0/mirroring for speed, > > did you also want to setup a 1/striped array? > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you > with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
