Re: GRUB trouble

[David Krings <ramons@xxxxxxx>]

Karl Larsen wrote:

> > Really? AFAIK a fake RAID is considered a RAID controller that doesn't 
> > have its own CPU and RAM, but uses resources of the main system.
> > Software RAID is when the OS itself performs the RAID functions 
> > regardless if there is a RAID controller or not. As long as you have 
> > (ideally) two identical drives,
> Not so David. The overall size of the HD is not a part of the raid-1 
> process. You need any size HD that has enough space for all the 
> partitions 8-)

That's why I added "ideally" in parantheses. Yes, you can use mismatched 
sizes, but that wastes space on the larger drive, hardly anything one 
strives for.

David