Intel Software RAID


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Hi,

I've installed a RAID-0 array of S-ATA HDDs in my new PC (My motherboard's chipset is Intel's 875 and the intergrated S-ATA controller which is currently supported is ICH5). I've already installed Windows, which means that I'm already using the Intel Software RAID.

Is there any way to install Linux in this array?

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you can use linux but you can't use the IAA RAID EDITION.

Linux also needs to support your motherboard and etc..

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you can use linux but you can't use the IAA RAID EDITION.

Linux also needs to support your motherboard and etc..

IAA RAID EDITION? What's this?

Actually my motherboard is an Intel one, D875PBZ... Is it supported?

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As for support: you can try a Knoppix CD to see if your MB will work. However, you want to see if SATA & RAID will? What did Google say?

And a question: Why RAID 0? It has ZERO fault tolerence. In fact, it should be called "AID", as there is no "R" (for redundant) in RAID 0 at all. Use RAID 0 for a swap partition, or for data you don't care about (standard OS files, for example)

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software raiding = bad....

go for real raiding....

Linux (err... at least the 2.6.3 kernel) supports RAID zero, and RAID one through five.

(raid 6 is in there too... but its experimental...

"WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you use it, there is no gaurantee whatsoever that it won't destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother, or re-appoint George W. Bush." is what menuconfig says :laugh:

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Well, I'm using RAID-0, because my motherboard's controller only supports RAID-0 and RAID-1 and I have only 2 HDDs. Since I don't want to waste one of my HDDs for backup, I took the risk to use a RAID-0 array.

I admit that software RAID is bad (after all Linux is using its own software RAID, to have a real RAID you have to go on a hardware one), but I've already said that I want to also have Windows in this RAID array, so Intel's Software RAID is the only solution.

I think I'll just have to wait some more time for a kernel whick supports it :( ...

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