Originally posted by: postmortemIA
this thread has PEBKAC written all over it.
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Advantages of Dynamic Disks:
Extreme flexibility with partitions
Ability to create partitions larger than 2 TeraBytes
Ability to use Windows Software RAID. Unfortunately, in my experience, Windows Software RAID isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Disadvantages of Dynamic Disks:
Many 3rd-party disk tools (including data recovery tools) apparently won't work on Dynamic Disks
Requires a full understanding of how Dynamic Disks work. These Forums have frequent postings by people who've "lost" their Dynamic Disk when moving the drive to a different PC.
Originally posted by: esit
If you intend to upgrade to Vista Home Premium, do not use dynamic disks! MS dropped dyanmic disk support in Vista Home Premium (while windows MCE XP still has it).
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
gparted is indeed good, but problem is that he's got RAID, and gparted might see two drives instead of array.
Unless of course he is talking about the software assisted wannabe hardware Raid cards, then I think only the nVidia (nvraid) raid has that problem.
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Unless of course he is talking about the software assisted wannabe hardware Raid cards, then I think only the nVidia (nvraid) raid has that problem.
No, pretty much all of them do, nVidia's just the most common AFAIK.
It's possible to work around it with dmraid and still work on the array, but that probably requires more Linux knowledge than the OP has.
Originally posted by: Brazen
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
gparted is indeed good, but problem is that he's got RAID, and gparted might see two drives instead of array.
It's a hardware Raid. That is only an issue with software Raid. Unless of course he is talking about the software assisted wannabe hardware Raid cards, then I think only the nVidia (nvraid) raid has that problem.
Originally posted by: sao123
Originally posted by: Brazen
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
gparted is indeed good, but problem is that he's got RAID, and gparted might see two drives instead of array.
It's a hardware Raid. That is only an issue with software Raid. Unless of course he is talking about the software assisted wannabe hardware Raid cards, then I think only the nVidia (nvraid) raid has that problem.
Promise Fasttrak 378 & Via VT8237 onboard raid controllers (Asus a8v motherboard)
Sometimes, linux is just too smart for it's own good...
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Sometimes, linux is just too smart for it's own good...
Actually it's the vendors that are too dumb, Linux talks to the ATA controller like it's an ATA controller because that's what it is, the vendors tout them as RAID controllers and then do all of the RAID in the driver to trick their users into think that they're getting more than they are. And some people fall for it really hard, just look at: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1972014&enterthread=y
Ha, yeah, I just read the first post. So much misinformation...
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
Once again, whole world is happy with some solution (onboard RAID), except Linux hard-core users, who find it convenient to blame it on somebody else.
Now they'll convince OP that his RAID (and Windows) sucks, so he shall move to mighty linux and its soft RAID.
Once again, whole world is happy with some solution (onboard RAID), except Linux hard-core users, who find it convenient to blame it on somebody else.
Now they'll convince OP that his RAID (and Windows) sucks, so he shall move to mighty linux and its soft RAID.