Hey

I have a Dell 9150 set up with 2 250 GB Western Digital hard drives in RAID 1. Afer problems trying to set up a dual boot with windows XP and Kubuntu i think ive found out that im using a fakeraid that came bundled with the Dell motherboard.

Basically i was wondering whether you think its best to try a long winded work around, or try to ditch the fakeraid and set up a software raid. As you can see i think i prefer the software option, but im just a newbie to this sorta thing and so want your expert opinions!

How do i go about ditching the fakeraid and setting up the sofware raid? What steps do i take? Do you think software raid is better than fakeraid generally? Will having a software raid instead of a fakeraid make it easier in hard drive detection of my raid 1 array when installing further operating systems (im thinking about trying SUSE as well as / instead of Kubuntu)?

Thanks for the input