Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
of course you are assuming facts not in evidence. If for example, he was trying to dual-boot with Windows and Windows had already set the drives up as fake raid... then he would probably have to work it through in this way to use a partition on the existing raid setup in some
manner
- and then my links may have been helpful.
Incorrect.
What I'm saying is that FRAID does _not_ have drivers like intelligent hardware RAID cards. They are typically embedded in the ATA subsystem (requiring a full kernel rebuild), or have other requirements other than just "building a SCSI module."
I of course wouldn't know this - I only have one system as dual-boot - my ancient Sony PictureBook laptop and am generally not a fan of dual-boot systems.
I've installed over 1,000 dual-boot systems in my time. I have _never_ gotten FRAID to work at all on them.
Now using MD and NT4-volumes (and, to a lesser extent, NT5-LDM) simultaneously, that's a different story. A crapload more manageable.
But I agree with you, dual-booting is a nightmare. Especially since Microsoft is currently "dorking around" with disk geometry in NT5.1SP2+ (XP SP2) and is breaking all sorts of things. They are using areas of Cylinder 0 (MBR cylinder)to store information on non-LDM disks.