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HecHacker1
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 Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 6:39 pm Post subject: New AMD64 system. Help a noobie with RAID issues. |
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Ok, I have been doing searching in these forums (and in Nforcershq.com) for anything related to RAID and getting it to work correctly with the Nvidia RAID (or for that matter, even the Si3114). What I have learned so far is that because it is only software RAID it presents a bunch of problems for the linux community. But I don't know if there has been any development on it since then.
My problem is that I have windows installed on 2x160 RAID 0. I left 100GB of it unpartitioned so that I could "hopefully" install Gentoo on it. So the next thing I did was download a new Resier4 live cd with a 2.6.9 kernel so that my devices could have support. I booted up and then did
So that i could see what drives I was gettings. It did find my two hard drives, but not in a RAID configuration. I also couldn't find the extra 100GB of free space i left aside.
Is there anything I can do in order to install Gentoo and Windows on the same array? I read about creating identicle partitions and then using modprobe md or something like that, but I don't think that applies to what I want to do. I want to keep windows xp.
Thank's for bearing with me.
System Specs:
Asus K8N-E
Athlon 3200+
2x160GB Western Digital SATA on Nvidia RAID (off mobo support) |
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yassen
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yassen
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| (and do not expect that fdisk shows anything about RAID -- it know nothing about it, it knows only about your physical devices and how they are partitioned.) |
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HecHacker1
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:45 am Post subject: |
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so what I got from all that is that it is currently not possible to install windows and linux on the same RAID 0 partition. (and installing windows first).
I guess i'll just have to dig up an older hard drive and use it for linux only (sadly i won't get the benfits of RAID). |
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makmortiv
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Mmm...I think you may be missing a little bit of his point. If you're only using RAID0 or RAID0+1...you might as well be using a sw raid. I know since Window 2K softraid has been enabled and is really easy to setup...and for the most part it's equivelent in Linux too.
Now I'm assuming that you'd want 3 partitions? 1 for ntfs (boot windows and program files etc), 1 for linux, 1 for shared files like downloads and whatever? That about hit it on the head?  |
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HecHacker1
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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well, for swraid i would need three hard disks anyways, so it kind of defeats the purpose of using my built in raid/SATA.
Yes, the mobo RAID's are usually just a little chip that provides connection for software RAID, but NVIDIA finally got it right with my mobo and I'm pretty sure it's a form of Hardware RAID.
If I used Software RAID in windows XP (or linux) then I basically am using a lot of CPU time for doing RAID, it defeats the purpose of my integrated RAID (which has really good performance in Windows XP). The NVRAID drivers for windows only use 0-1% of CPU and provide litterally double the throuhput.
Oh well, i am just going to get a separate IDE hard disk and use it for linux. |
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R!tman
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Thank you yassen, these links are very useful. |
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