The short version first:
- Status of your current setup Yuppers, if you would switch from your current RAID setup to
Software RAID, you would have to delete the RAID set in the controller-BIOS (results in complete data loss)
- MDK tools for RAID setup I don't know what RAID setup utilites come with MDK these days, but
you can take it as granted that the kernel comes with SW-RAID support.
As it goes for the relation between drives/partitions, logical
volumes and all that ... (lean back, relax, this is going to be lengthy
What you have found on the MDK forum is about what I was talking about
in my first post ("LVM"/"Software RAID").
In fact, "onboard hardware RAID" - as postulated by the motherboard
manufacturers - is in no way a hardware solution. It's a marketing
buzz-word, and indeed: you'd probably be better off with a genuine
linux software-RAID solution.
The linux SW-RAID-technique is what you might know from Windows as "Dynamic Volumes". Compared to the heapo-onboard solutions SW-RAID has some major advantages. The most interesting one is that you can use partitions for your RAID-volumes instead of whole drives. Time for some rotten ASCII-art, I say :)
Check a detailed explanation here
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Entered by smurphy on Friday, 02 September 2005 @ 00:58:31
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