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> The only reason I considered the motherboard RAID was that I could have |
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> an XP partition and install an ext2 driver to access my Gentoo |
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> partitions. As far as I know, a filesystem in a linux software raid |
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> cannot be accessed from windows. |
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> After reading the replies here, I'm going to go ahead with linux |
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> software raid. Accessing my linux partitions from windows isn't very |
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> important for me, as I only use XP for occasional gaming. |
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And even then last time i checked windows support for ext2 FS wasnt so |
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great. I personnally do all file transfer using linux (which works |
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fine with windows' fat FS, i dont use ntfs because it used to lack |
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write support long ago). |
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That is, in windows, i would move the files in a folder created on the |
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desktop, and then in linux, i would mount the windows drive and |
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copy/move the files in |
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/mnt/windrive/Documents*/simon/Desktop/folder_for_linux/. |
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If you wish to setup windows on a raid, you might consider the |
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fakeraid for that? But if you use it for gaming i dont think raid is |
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advisable, doing backups should be sufficient, IMO. |
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HTH, Simon |
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