[Pc_Support] WinXP 64-Bit Software Raid Setup Howto? -- nForce 4/4x0 FRAID-1 works fine ...

[Jason Boxman]

On Sunday 27 August 2006 15:38, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> carter at carter.cc wrote:
> > You're quite correct... no mirroring/striping with XP or 2K Pro.
> > 2000 Server, 2003 Server are the only recent OS's that support it.
> > So if you don't have it available on-board (FRAID) or via a real
> > hardware controller, you're SOL in Windows Land.
>
<snip>
> Fedora Core 5's devicemapper automagically creates the
> /dev/mapper/nvidia* entries and then symlinks them to /dev/dm-0 (full
> disk), /dev/dm-1 (first partition), /dev/dm-2, etc...  Again, these
> worked flawlessly for even copying the Windows partitions (including
> a raw "dd" of the 32MB C:/boot/system drive).
>
> GRUB and Linux boot fine from the FRAID-1 volume, and even prevent me
> from accidentally writing to the "regular" /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
> device when the BIOS has been set to [F]RAID.

Nice.  I was finally considering moving to either software RAID 1 or mainboard 
RAID 1 for future systems when I finally make the jump to SATA.  I am pleased 
to see F.RAID 1 worked for you.  That gives me hope.  I really can't afford a 
3Ware 8000-2 or whatever for hardware SATA RAID 1 for home systems and I 
don't need hotswap anyway.

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Jason Boxman
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