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Fedora or Mandrake for nVIDIA RAID?

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excalibur313

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I want to install a 64 bit version of linux to run mathematica and I am really torn between Fedora Yarrow and Mandrake 10.1. I would also like to do all the other basic things that will allow me to delete my windows partition but I was wondering how I can set up nvidia raid (0) for my dfi nf3 250gb motherboard. I'm kind of new to linux for pcs and I was wondering how I can do that while splitting up my raid down the center in terms of space alloted for windows and the linux. Thank you so much for your time; I really appreciate you helping me out!
Stephen
 
So what you're suggesting is that trying to figure out hardware raid is too difficult? I thought that software raid was slower than hardware though (would this mean that it is slower to run software than just the two drives by themselves or do i still get a performace increase). If I already have a hardware raid setup for the windows running on my computer and want to partititon it, do I have to get rid of it or can I run it as software raid in linux and hardware in windows?
thanks!
stephen
 
So what you're suggesting is that trying to figure out hardware raid is too difficult?
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A) It's not real hardware RAID, it's software RAID with a little magic to make it bootable
B) It'll only be easier if it's supported in the vanilla kernels and I don't know if it is or not, boot up and see how many disks the installer sees.

If you boot up the installer and it see 1 disk you're in luck, the "RAID" is detected but if you see 2 disks it's not and you'll have to do some f'ing around to get it to work either way.
 
The issue is that I have windows installed already on this raid and windows found it fine but mandrake and redhat have problems and see it as two separate drives. Is there any other action right now than to reformat everything and rebuild it as software or can I let it be hardware in windows and software in linux?
 
Letting it be pseudo-hardware in Windows and software in Linux would be a huge PITA and I'm not sure there's a way to make it work reliably. Frankly, I would ditch the RAID-0, it's more trouble than it's worth.
 
Okay....Is there a way to save the stuff I have on my hard drives now to convert it to non raid or do I have to wipe everything? (eg is there a way to save an image of my drive?)
 
After I distroyed the raid it now is always asking for me to insert a system every time i boot up. This is even after I installed windows and it doesn't even do anything with the system disk. Why is this and how can I fix it?
 
But it should just fail down the list of boot devices, I've never seen a box just hang at the first device.
 
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