> The only reason I considered the motherboard RAID was that I could have > an XP partition and install an ext2 driver to access my Gentoo > partitions. As far as I know, a filesystem in a linux software raid > cannot be accessed from windows. > > After reading the replies here, I'm going to go ahead with linux > software raid. Accessing my linux partitions from windows isn't very > important for me, as I only use XP for occasional gaming.
And even then last time i checked windows support for ext2 FS wasnt so great. I personnally do all file transfer using linux (which works fine with windows' fat FS, i dont use ntfs because it used to lack write support long ago). That is, in windows, i would move the files in a folder created on the desktop, and then in linux, i would mount the windows drive and copy/move the files in /mnt/windrive/Documents*/simon/Desktop/folder_for_linux/. If you wish to setup windows on a raid, you might consider the fakeraid for that? But if you use it for gaming i dont think raid is advisable, doing backups should be sufficient, IMO. HTH, Simon
