HELP! Raid 0 and Linux!

[meson2000]

I have an ASUS A7V133 with a Promiss ATA100 raid controller. I currently
have 2 20gig drives setup in Raid 0 under WinXP. I want to switch
to Linux for everything but gaming. Is it possible to boot Linux under Raid
0 like I am with WinXP? Do I need any special drivers for Linux? Anyone
have any info on this? Thanks!!!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Grab some lilnux drivers from promise and it should work great. But I personally wouldnt bother with RAID 0 or bios assisted software RAID cards.

 

[RedBeard0531]

Promise Drivers are built into the newer 2.4.x kernals. if your distro doesnt have it compiled in(which it likely doesnt, you will need to compile a custom kernal. Just make sure you check the option to enable expiramental options, and if you want to boot to the raid drive, you need to cople support directly into the kernal, not as a module. if you have never compiled your own kernal, dont worry, it is very easy, and u dont have to no jack about programming. just make sure you read the AT FAQ. I would put a link to it but since it is still on the main page, just follow the link in n0c's sig above.

please note that I have never used bios raid, i just have too much free time to surf the web.

 

[TheWart]

just remember that you can use software raid in linux as the promise card is not a tru hardware raid card. The linux software raid is about the same speed.

 

[RedBeard0531]

Originally posted by: TheWart
just remember that you can use software raid in linux as the promise card is not a tru hardware raid card. The linux software raid is about the same speed.

It sounds like he already has set 2 disks up to be a "bios raid disk". if that is the case he would lose his windows partition if he wanted to use standared linux s/w raid( or forthat matter a non raided linux patition). the other advantage to doing it this wayu is that he can have the speed increase in both OSs, and still read the windows partition's data from linux. the current linux kernel doesnt support windows raid drives, but it does support single drive dynamic disks.