Dual boot RAID 1

[zeus]

I have an x86 desktop which I still dual boot windows and Linux.

At the moment ive got all my "to keep" files on an 80gb ntfs pata drive but would like to setup a RAID 1.

Will I have any problems caused by dual booting if I get a pci RAID card? Or is a hardware RAID configuration standalone?

I will be using windows 2000 pro and xubuntu 8.04.

Any suggestions on a RAID card will be more than welcome.

 

[Impotence]

As far as i know desktop releases of windows operating systems don't support anything other than RAID-0

 

[zeus]

Only RAID 0 in windows? That cant be right. Im sure both our office pcs have raid 1. I know i asked the pc builders at the shops to add raid 1!

 

[megamaced]

A hardware RAID setup is transparent to the operating system, so Linux and Windows in a dual boot setup is fine.

Impotence, I think you may be refering to software RAID. Windows does not support that unless you are running the server versions