On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Kelly Terry <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a multiboot system that I use both linux and windows xp on. It > had an 80 gb drive which was inadequate for recording tv on. I got > 2-640 gb drives that I want to stripe in a raid 0 and do a clean > reinstall of both os's. The only problem is in using the linux > installer for partition setup and formatting. The mobo supports raid > and windows recognizes it as such. To get the linux partitions set up > the installer (Mandriva, OpenSuse, Kubuntu) doesn't recognize it as a > raid set up. It sees each drive separately and allows me to partition > and format each one individually but not as a raid. Does anyone know > of a cheap raid card that will allow both drives to seen by linux > installers as a raid and not individually?
dm (linux device mapper) can understand several different software raid formats (including 'fakeraid' that some motherboard bioses 'implement'). If your bios/'hardware' is supported, you may just need to tell the installation boot loader to load the right module and it's parameters. try some of these: http://people.redhat.com/heinzm/sw/dmraid/readme http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/NVRAID_with_dmraid https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto OTOH, Windows XP can actually do software raid itself. So if you want to just leave the bios/fakeraid out of the picture, you can configure software raid for both windows and linux as you see fit. Not all linux distro installers allow for a simple root-on-raid1 install, but as long as it allows you to get to a shell, you can usually make them work. I don't know if you can put C: on software raid1 in windows, but I know you can easily create mirrors (and stripes) in windows. You can even do it in Windows XP Home if you copy the appropriate dll from an XP Pro install--the feature is in XP Home, just disabled/hidden. Nick /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
