Please tell me if this would work

[Skawttey]

i will be installing windows and linux on a machine with 3 40gb hard drives. Two of the drives will be in a RAID 0 for windows. The third 40 will have linux (and possibly free BSD). I want linux to be able to see files, such as MP3s and doccuments, on the 80gb RAID. Will this work? Do i have to install RAID drivers in linux in order for it to see the windows partition?

 

[marat]

I installed linux on computer of my friend a few days ago and he had 6 harddrives running in a Raid5 with NTFS (>300GB of data). Linux picked it up withough any problems. Check if your raid controller is supported under Linux. Make sure you install one of the newer distroes.

 

[Heisenberg]

The RAID part of it shouldn't be a problem. The problem you would have is using NTFS for the filesystem. Linux can read and write to FAT32, but not to NTFS. There are patches out for NTFS, but they're still buggy and limited in what they do. I'm not sure about FreeBSD. I've never dual-booted a FreeBSD box before so I'm not sure what it can read/write to. Probably similar to linux but I would check it out.