Booting order / SATA onboard / IDE card

[Jose]

On 5/14/2010 2:05 PM, William Park wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:28:06PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> Why would anyone not raid everything?  Do you like wasting half a day
>> reinstalling the OS when the drive fails?  Sure you didn't loose your
>> data because it was on raid, but you lost access to your data, which is
>> almost as bad.
>>
>> People who think swap and the OS don't need to be on raid when the data
>> is are just amazingly stupid.  If the machine crashses in the middle of
>> an access, it doesn't matter that your data is on raid, you can still
>> screw it up.
>>
>> You put it all on raid or you don't bother.
>
> How do you put OS partition on a raid?
>
> Don't you have to use either hardware raid card or builtin chipset on
> motherboard?  If so, how do you move your disks to another computer, if
> your raid card or motherboard dies?
>
you can raid mirror using linux OS, check raidtools
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