Jec wrote:<span class="q"><br></span>
>Are you sure? Don't you think that Ubuntu has dmraid available in the setup?<br>
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I don't know if Ubuntu has RAID drivers for this particular device on
the setup, I wouldn't know how to use them if it did either. I do know
that Ubuntu has some RAID drivers in the installer though.<br>
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Actually I didn't know about dmraid, but apparently it "discovers,
activates, deactivates and displays properties
of software RAID sets (eg, ATARAID) and contained DOS partitions" and
supports "Silicon Image(tm) Medley(tm)". I'm not sure if that means it
will support Silicon Image 3112A fakeraid or not, but it could be
interesting.<br><br><div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > 1. Install Ubuntu on some other, non-raid volume, then install the<br> > needed<br>
> raid support, then migrate Ubuntu. Sounds pretty troublesome, I don't<br> > think<br> > he's willing to go to so much trouble.<br><br>That's not *that* hard except you'll need some spare disk...<br>Knoppix + tar is your friend in this case.
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My friend found a forum posting in which someone explained how they did
this with Ubuntu. It looked pretty complex. He's not willing to go to
those lengths. Maybe it can be done more easily than the posting
described, I don't know. Here is the post:
<a href="http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=86219&highlight=stripe">http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=86219&highlight=stripe</a><br>
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</div> For dual booting, why not using Partition1 of each disk for RAID using<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">SATA controller and Partition2 for Linux with software RAID on it?<br>I think it's your best luck... Don't know if SATA RAID let you make RAID
<br>from partitions or only from whole disk.</blockquote><div><br>
My friend doesn't think this is possible, he said that once a drive becomes 'RAIDed' the whole drive becomes 'RAIDed'.<br>
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Thanks for the input.<br>
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