On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:32 +1100, Les Gray wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 07.02.2008, 16:45 +1100 schrieb Gabriel Noronha: > > <snip> > > Is there a linux software raid which is nicer than the one which has to > > work with windows ? > > Yes. There are a few good howtos out there. I found this one on the > Ubuntu forums - > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=408461&highlight=raid+howto > > I've never used RAID myself, though, because I don't think it makes much > sense in the home user setting. It just adds another layer of complexity > to your system that could be a source of problems, while offering little > in the way of extra performance. > > > 2nd question will installing 64bit ubuntu make vmware more buggy ? > > Quite the opposite, I would have thought. One of the things that the > 64-bit environment has over the 32-bit is that it's supposed to make > virtualisation perform better. > > Running 64-bit Ubuntu brings its own problems, though, especially when > it comes to software compatibility. I installed 64-bit during the Edgy > release cycle and found that you need to go through a lot of workarounds > to get things like browser plugins and some multimedia codecs to work > properly. This is because a lot of this software is not available in > 64-bit versions or, if it is, it lacks important functionality. > > In the end I thought the extra effort wasn't worth it and went back to > 32-bit, where 99% of home users are, anyway. You might think differently > if you do lots of media encoding or other CPU-intensive tasks or you > need to address more than 64GB of RAM. > > btw, when I can get around to it I'm going to install WinXP in a VM > using Virtualbox, which is supposed to be easier to set up than vmware. > > > Aside question since every 2nd new motherboard these days ships with > > "RAID" why is it so hard to set it up on Ubuntu. > > You don't have to use the RAID if you don't want to. I have 2 SATA disks > in my desktop and I just disabled the RAID ROM in the BIOS. The disks > just run as 2 separate, 'ordinary' SATA drives. > > I Installed my raid system it works very happy with it
i also wrote https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID since there was nothing in the wiki. Gab -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
