Re: Setting up ATA RAID 0 on existing installation

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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:31:38 -0700
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

Andrew Konosky wrote:

> I recently upgraded to a Western Digital 80gb 7200rpm 8mb buffer hard
> drive, but it ended up being defective and crapped out on me after
> only a day. I sent it back, but the RMA process was going to take two
> weeks, so I went to Circuit City and bought myself another one. Well,
> the online store would'nt refund my first drive and I just got my
> replacement via FedEx a few days ago. I have already setup and
> installed by dual-boot system with Windows 98SE and FC2 on the second
> drive, and I don't want to have to reformat and reinstall everything
> again. Would it be possible to setup a striped RAID 0 array on my
> current setup, or would I have to reformat? Would I have to configure
> Windows and Linux each seperatley to use the RAID array, or is that
> independent of the OS? I don't have a RAID card yet, but getting one
> is no problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>
With RAID 0 you're pretty much screwed since the bits are interweaved on
both hard drives. You'll have to reformat.

-Matt

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