I have HPT 372 controller, not being used as raid as the moment. I have been considering setting up raid system again (did once before with SuSE 7.3). Since I had dual boot, Win98 and SuSE I often saw errors when booting into Winbloze: it wanted to re-setup the raid system and I regularly refused it, and sometimes got some irregular errors. Can I set up a raid system that does not use all of the disk in the system? For example, if I have 4 x 40Gb disks, could I reserve first 20Gb on each disk for Windoze (total 80G on all four drives) and use the second half of each disk for a raid system, 0+1, (total 40Gb, striped, mirrored)? Thanks for any advice. Richard
Can I set up a raid system that does not use all of the disk in the system?
Short answer, no. Longer answer, the Highpoint RocketRaid controllers, like all other hardware RAID controllers I've ever seen, encapsulate the entire disk as a member of the array. If you go into the Highpoint configuration (CTRL-H on boot) you will see that when you setup an array - RAID 1 for example - you are prompted to select the two disks that will join the array (you simply number them "1" and "2"). The Highpoint controller does not know about any partition information on the drives. -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions
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