Software RAID

I dual boot WinXP Pro, and Suse 9. Right now, I have two 120GB drives, one
is partitioned with Linux swap, Linux root, winxp (NTFS), home (FAT32). The
home partition is where I keep all my documents, used from both OS. The
second drive is backups of the home dir, and for media storage.
I would like to do a software RAID setup. But it seems that for windows to
do that, I can't have Linux partitions on either of the drives. Does anyone
know if this is true?

I would like to have both the Linux and WinXP partitions setup with software
RAID 0 I think, whatever, I want these two partitions setup for higher speed
access. So things will programs and stuff will start faster, load games
faster. But I want the home dir, the FAT32 partition, to be on RAID
mirroring, so if one drive goes out, I still have all my documents.

Anyone know if this is even possible?



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>Perhaps this is the comeback?
>http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html
>
>According to that, Linux can do Software RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 10.. I glanced
>quickly at the MS KB regarding Dynamic Disk and it seems like it is simply
>RAID 0, 1, 5 so I am not sure what the difference is?
>
>I did a search on Google and found a benchmark on a software RAID 5 setup
>(11x120GB 5400RPM drives) using Promise Ultra66 controllers and a 1.6Ghz
>Pentium 4 processor and it had 93MB/sec read and 26MB/sec write.. Given the
>number of disks, the single processor and 5400RPM drives, that sounds
>pretty good to me.
>
>Joe
>

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