Re: AMD64 + nvraid installation

2006-07-01 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 02:35:26PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: Um, I haven't done such a mixed installation, but that nvidia softraid is likely to give you grief, and even if the motherboard dies on you, and you want to get back at your data. Doesn't newer (XP and 2003 etc.) do a soft RAID of

Re: AMD64 + nvraid installation

2006-07-01 Thread Adam Skutt
Gabor Gombas wrote: - Although XP can _use_ mirrored volumes, it can not _create_ them. You need a server edition of Windows to create the volumes. If you do not want to buy a server edition license, then you've lost. There was a published hack on Tom's Hardware (dunno if it's there

AMD64 + nvraid installation

2006-06-30 Thread Jan De Luyck
Hello list, Just a short question: I'm getting an AMD64 system delivered soon, and I'd like to make use of the nvidia 'softraid' that comes with it (I need it in both OS' that will run on the box). I haven't really found much documentation on this: is this supported from the debian installer

Re: AMD64 + nvraid installation

2006-06-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 02:13:42PM +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote: Hello list, Just a short question: I'm getting an AMD64 system delivered soon, and I'd like to make use of the nvidia 'softraid' that comes with it (I need it in both OS' that will run on the box). Um, I haven't done such a

Re: AMD64 + nvraid installation

2006-06-30 Thread Karl Schmidt
Jan De Luyck wrote: Hello list, Just a short question: I'm getting an AMD64 system delivered soon, and I'd like to make use of the nvidia 'softraid' that comes with it (I need it in both OS' that will run on the box). I haven't really found much documentation on this: is this supported from

Re: AMD64 + nvraid installation

2006-06-30 Thread Jo Shields
Karl Schmidt wrote: Jan De Luyck wrote: Hello list, Just a short question: I'm getting an AMD64 system delivered soon, and I'd like to make use of the nvidia 'softraid' that comes with it (I need it in both OS' that will run on the box). I haven't really found much documentation on this:

Re: AMD64 + nvraid installation

2006-06-30 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 02:05:50PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: Just a short question: I'm getting an AMD64 system delivered soon, and I'd like to make use of the nvidia 'softraid' that comes with it (I need it in both OS' that will run on the box). I haven't really found much documentation on

Re: AMD64 + nvraid installation

2006-06-30 Thread Adam Stiles
On Friday 30 June 2006 13:13, Jan De Luyck wrote: Hello list, Just a short question: I'm getting an AMD64 system delivered soon, and I'd like to make use of the nvidia 'softraid' that comes with it (I need it in both OS' that will run on the box). I haven't really found much documentation

Re: AMD64 + nvraid installation

2006-06-30 Thread Jo Shields
Erik Mouw wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 02:05:50PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: Just a short question: I'm getting an AMD64 system delivered soon, and I'd like to make use of the nvidia 'softraid' that comes with it (I need it in both OS' that will run on the box). I haven't really found

Re: AMD64 + nvraid installation

2006-06-30 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:01:18PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: Erik Mouw wrote: Just use dmraid, it's a layer on top of MD that is able to read the proprietary fakeraid configs and make a workable MD device from it. See http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/ and

Re: AMD64 + nvraid installation

2006-06-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 02:13:42PM +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote: Just a short question: I'm getting an AMD64 system delivered soon, and I'd like to make use of the nvidia 'softraid' that comes with it (I need it in both OS' that will run on the box). I haven't really found much documentation