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. -- Regards, Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT ----- Original Message ----- From: "steve wiebelhaus" To: 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 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – FREE > download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss