Setting up ATA RAID 0 on existing installation

[Matt Kowalczyk]

Andrew Konosky wrote:

> I recently upgraded to a Western Digital 80gb 7200rpm 8mb buffer hard 
> drive, but it ended up being defective and crapped out on me after 
> only a day. I sent it back, but the RMA process was going to take two 
> weeks, so I went to Circuit City and bought myself another one. Well, 
> the online store would'nt refund my first drive and I just got my 
> replacement via FedEx a few days ago. I have already setup and 
> installed by dual-boot system with Windows 98SE and FC2 on the second 
> drive, and I don't want to have to reformat and reinstall everything 
> again. Would it be possible to setup a striped RAID 0 array on my 
> current setup, or would I have to reformat? Would I have to configure 
> Windows and Linux each seperatley to use the RAID array, or is that 
> independent of the OS? I don't have a RAID card yet, but getting one 
> is no problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>
With RAID 0 you're pretty much screwed since the bits are interweaved on 
both hard drives.  You'll have to reformat.

-Matt