2 operation systems on an IDE raid?

[gilgamesh]

is it possible? im looking to set up an ide raid system and wanting to have 2 operation systems like win 2k and 98. i saw a coment at promise's website that they don't encourage for me to use program like system commander. has anyone set up a system like i plan to build?

also another question i have maxtor's 91366u4(13.6 gb/7200 rpm/2mb) and western digitals expert(9.1gb/7200/2mb); which one should i buy another to match one of them? i read lots of report saying maxtor generally don't work well under an ide raid. but how about this particular drive?

thanks

[daveleau]

For all intents and purposes, you can do anything with a RAID striped (for performance ) hdd that you can do with a regular hdd b/c the Fasttrakk fools the system into thinking it is one hdd. 2 operating systems will be fine. You may not have drivers for the fasttrakk on all OSes but I have run my fasttrakk mod before w/o drivers and still saw performance upgrade and no problems.

You can mix and match hdds but you can only stripe the smallest size (2 9GB's raided with an extra 4GB w/o any performance enhancement.) I haven't heard anything about Maxtors and RAID but they don't get the nickname Craptor for nothing. They are horrible overclocking hdds and after my experiences w/ them I will never buy another. No need to go out and get another though. For $25 you can get the ATA66 and the parts to mod it and try it out before getting a new hdd.
Good luck
Dave

[This message has been edited by daveleau (edited 06-25-2000).]