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He probably want's to use fakeraid because he wants to have a dual-boot |
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Windows-Linux, both using raid. I also have had the same problem with |
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2.6.16+ dmraid, and the only solution I found was to use kernel |
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2.6.15-r9 (just < 2.6.16). Only 2.6.15 gives me other problems... |
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On 26/06/06, Friedrich Göpel <shado23@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 6/26/06, Catalin Trifu <catalin@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > Why not use software RAID ? You don't necessarily need |
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> > the hardware RAID and as far as I know software RAID works just as |
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> > fine as the hardware RAID. |
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> Hi, |
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> Well, usually hardware raid is much better, at least if you want |
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> raid5/6, for raid 0 or 1 it is not such a big difference, but all of |
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> these on board raid chips are not hardware raid at all (fakeraid), you |
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> just have less influence/clue on what it's doing. |
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> The only reason to do this would be if you want to be able to read |
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> these partitions from windows. |
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> If you don't need this it's much better to just use the tried and |
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> trusted linux software raid, I did the same on my nforce4 board. |
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> It's quite easy actually, and you don't need an initrd at all. |
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> These might be of help, if you decide to go that route: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml#software-raid |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_on_Software_RAID |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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