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Old 08-17-2006, 02:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I am planning on dual booting Xandros and Windows, but i've got a question before installing Xandros.

Currently my setup is as follows; 120GB harddrive for OS's (~56GBs for each), and two 120's in RAID 0 (for 240GB) with all my music on it. Is there any way to be able to play the files off the RAID drives even though it's already been formatted to NTFS?
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Old 08-17-2006, 04:25 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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There are two issues here. The first is that you actually need access to the RAID volume. What is managing your RAID? If it's a RAID volume you set up in Windows, I don't know for sure, but it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to access that partition. If you have a RAID hardware card, then all you need is a linux driver for your H/W RAID card.

The second issue is NTFS access. You can go with a commercial NTFS driver for Linux, or the open-source solution.

Your biggest issue is going to be with RAID.
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I setup the RAID in the BIOS/Windows. And from what you said, it doesn't look like i'll be able to.
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