I choose for a software RAID controller because it is cheap. An hardware controller would cost me six times more, but would be at most 10% faster. That's not worth it. Installing this RAID card is easy under Win XP, because I can just put a disk in my pc with the drivers at setup time and it will work.
I know this will be another story for debian. I've read stories of people who got the Promise drivers working under 2.6.8, but those drivers are not fast. I use 2.6.8 because I have a SMP setup. I want no other drives than the two of my RAID setup in my pc because I hate noise.
I buy a software RAID controller because the price difference between a software RAID SATA controller and a SATA controller is < €10,-
What are the troubles I will run into? I can load things in my BIOS, because I have 2MB BIOS memory (MPX2).
The adress you gave me was wrong, http://www.1U-Raid5.net/HowTO/SW-Raid-HOWTO.txt this one is correct.
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Niels wrote:I want to buy a Promise Fasttrack TX2 plus RAID 0 controller with two SATA hard disks. The controller is a software controller. I want no other hard disks than these two in my PC. Can I boot of this setup with the 2.6 kernel?yes...Is it possible to put Windows XP and Debian Linux on the same RAID 0 array?yesIs it difficult to install?no -- trick is to install windoze on the 1st partition so it thinks its C: --- bigger problem ... - why use 2 disks in raid0 ( aks stripping ) which might allow you to read faster but also makes 2 disks look like 1 bigger disk - if one disk dies... both disk are useless - i think you want to use (sw or hw ) raid1 ( mirror ) - if one disk dies ... all your data is still intact on the other disk - gazillion raid howtos urls http://1u_raid5.net/HowTo/SW-Raid-HOWTO.txt c ya alvin