Nforce4 RAID
I just bought 2 160gb SATA2 discs, i would like to know, if i use Hardware raid, would it work? Should i use software raid? THanks
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I just bought 2 160gb SATA2 discs, i would like to know, if i use Hardware raid, would it work? Should i use software raid? THanks
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I'm not sure if hardware RAID works of if anyone has tested it. Will you make a try for the community?
It doesn't work. MeDevil's kext doesn't support RAID yet. You can create a software RAID with the Disk Utility, but it won't be bootable. Though you can boot from an alternate disk, and set the root drive to your raid with bootflags.
http://osx86.wikidot.com/how-to-s#toc7 ↗
Use that How-To. When I did it, I didn't create the seperate boot partition, so I was using 2 whole drives. Instead I copied the boot files to a USB Pen Drive and used that to boot. Though, It was slow to boot, but it got the job done.