On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:09:44PM +0000, Alan Dunkley wrote: > Software raid works fine for me Software raid 1 is also bootable. Each mirror, though part of a raid 1 array, also looks like a regualr partition, so the boot loader can use it just fine. Raid 1 is also faster for reading than a single disk, and no slower for writing. (Assuming you put your disks on separate IDE controllers so reads and writes cna be dispatched to each disk in parallel.) -kb