I have a lovely pair of Seagate 1TB drives in my desktop, set up as a mirrored array using the hardware RAID controller.
My understanding was that as the hardware would be doing the RAID, the OS would only ever see the one drive, and this is the case under Windows (Windows 7 x64) what I've installed.
I've left some space on the end for a Linux install, but when I boot from a Kubuntu CD it detects two seperate drives, not the one combined drive as I expected. Why? I guess if I went through the install, it would use a partition on only one of the mirrored set. That wouldn't be so bad, but I wanted both OSs to be able to use data on a middle NTFS partition, and surely if Kubuntu isn't working with RAID for some reason, any writes to that data partition will result in the two being out of sync.
Confused. Should I buy a Mac?
My understanding was that as the hardware would be doing the RAID, the OS would only ever see the one drive, and this is the case under Windows (Windows 7 x64) what I've installed.
I've left some space on the end for a Linux install, but when I boot from a Kubuntu CD it detects two seperate drives, not the one combined drive as I expected. Why? I guess if I went through the install, it would use a partition on only one of the mirrored set. That wouldn't be so bad, but I wanted both OSs to be able to use data on a middle NTFS partition, and surely if Kubuntu isn't working with RAID for some reason, any writes to that data partition will result in the two being out of sync.
Confused. Should I buy a Mac?
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