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March 10th 04, 10:04 AM
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RAID cards and multi-booting
Can multi-booting (e.g. in WinXP or Partition Magic) involve the
hard drives which are part of a PCI card RAID array? That is, can the 2 HDs of a Level 1 (mirroring) array both contain the same multiple OSes which could be selected at boot time just as one can do with multi-booting from 1 HD? Or must the HDs of a Level 1 RAID array contain just one bootable partition? *TimDaniels* 
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March 10th 04, 12:24 PM
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:04:51 -0800, "Timothy Daniels"
wrote: Can multi-booting (e.g. in WinXP or Partition Magic) involve the hard drives which are part of a PCI card RAID array? That is, can the 2 HDs of a Level 1 (mirroring) array both contain the same multiple OSes which could be selected at boot time just as one can do with multi-booting from 1 HD? Or must the HDs of a Level 1 RAID array contain just one bootable partition? *TimDaniels* Yes, you can and must do it that way with a raid1 array... once the array is created, thereafter, you have no control on differentiating what's on (which) drive, they're logically identical and are treated just as a single drive would be (except of course the OS driver).
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March 10th 04, 05:47 PM
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"kony" wrote:
"Timothy Daniels" wrote: Can multi-booting (e.g. in WinXP or Partition Magic) involve the hard drives which are part of a PCI card RAID array? That is, can the 2 HDs of a Level 1 (mirroring) array both contain the same multiple OSes which could be selected at boot time just as one can do with multi-booting from 1 HD? Or must the HDs of a Level 1 RAID array contain just one bootable partition? *TimDaniels* Yes, you can and must do it that way with a raid1 array... once the array is created, thereafter, you have no control on differentiating what's on (which) drive, they're logically identical and are treated just as a single drive would be (except of course the OS driver). To be explicit, you're saying that Level 1 RAID hard drives *can* be multi-booted so that the OS can be chosen from among 2 or more OSes at startup? *TimDaniels*
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March 10th 04, 08:30 PM
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In message "Timothy Daniels"
did ramble: To be explicit, you're saying that Level 1 RAID hard drives *can* be multi-booted so that the OS can be chosen from among 2 or more OSes at startup? Sure. If you have a hardware RAID-1 card, it acts like one drive. -- 'Tis far better to have snipped too much than to never have snipped at all.
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March 10th 04, 11:15 PM
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:47:21 -0800, "Timothy Daniels"
wrote: Yes, you can and must do it that way with a raid1 array... once the array is created, thereafter, you have no control on differentiating what's on (which) drive, they're logically identical and are treated just as a single drive would be (except of course the OS driver). To be explicit, you're saying that Level 1 RAID hard drives *can* be multi-booted so that the OS can be chosen from among 2 or more OSes at startup? Yes
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