Craig White <craigwhite at 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. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)