In order to get RAID, volumes spanned across multiple disks and that sort of
stuff in Windows boxes, you have to convert the disks to "Dynamic" disks.
Unfortunately, when you convert a disk to dynamic, it makes it impossible to
access the disk with Linux (or Windows 98 or anything else but Windows
2000/XP). So, you can have either RAID under Linux or RAID under Windows,
but not both on the same disk.
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Regards,
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
----- Original Message -----
From: "steve wiebelhaus" <
shackman97@hotmail.com>
To: <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 3:22 PM
Subject: 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?
>
>
>
> Hompage www.public.asu.edu/~swiebel/index.html
>
>
>
> >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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