Disk Layout/Partitioning Practices

[WipeOut]

Felix Miata wrote:

>Alan Dunkley wrote:
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>>2x80GB RAID-1 disks
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>How? I tried SuSE, Fedora, Lindows & Mandrake, and couldn't find out how
>to install to RAID1. All I could find said this is only possible via
>software, creating a major chicken & egg situation that is complicated
>by having windoze already installed using the motherboard "hardware"
>RAID.
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There is nothing wrong with Linux software RAID, in fact it does have 
some strong advantages.. But I am not going to fire up that debate again..

If you are refering to the Promise or similar ATA RAID controllers these 
are also *software* RAID since most of the RAID finctionality is 
performed by the driver not the card.. The only exception to this that I 
know of so far is the 3ware ATA RAID cards which are true hardware RAID 
controllers, and the driver is included in Linux as well so installation 
is a breeze..

later..