GRUB trouble

[David Krings]

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