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Is it possible to set up a software RAID 1 with two IDE hard drives?
Can I mirror part of one disk with the entire other disk?
I want to have my 160 gig disk as 40 for boot and 120 mirrored with
my 120 gig disk. Is that doable?

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On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:40:41 +1000, Barry OGrady wrote:

> Is it possible to set up a software RAID 1 with two IDE hard drives?
> Can I mirror part of one disk with the entire other disk?
> I want to have my 160 gig disk as 40 for boot and 120 mirrored with
> my 120 gig disk. Is that doable?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID



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You would be better off with an Imaging app, assuming your mobo doesnt
support ide raid

"Barry OGrady" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Is it possible to set up a software RAID 1 with two IDE hard drives?
> Can I mirror part of one disk with the entire other disk?
> I want to have my 160 gig disk as 40 for boot and 120 mirrored with
> my 120 gig disk. Is that doable?
>
> Barry
> =====
> Home page
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og
> I do not represent atheists or atheism

"Barry OGrady" wrote in message
news:...
> Is it possible to set up a software RAID 1 with two IDE hard drives?
> Can I mirror part of one disk with the entire other disk?
> I want to have my 160 gig disk as 40 for boot and 120 mirrored with
> my 120 gig disk. Is that doable?


Do you realize that you will be slowing down access to the mirrored
array but using software-based RAID? If you want to do RAID, do it in
hardware.

Barry OGrady wrote:

> Is it possible to set up a software RAID 1 with two IDE hard drives?
> Can I mirror part of one disk with the entire other disk?
> I want to have my 160 gig disk as 40 for boot and 120 mirrored with
> my 120 gig disk. Is that doable?
>
> Barry
> =====
> Home page
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og
> I do not represent atheists or atheism
It would be easier to have (2) 160Gb drives in raid 1 and have a dual
boot config.