evgenisco Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I have windows xp installed on a software RAID/SATA setup and I want to install OSX86 on a separate ata drive. The thing is that it's important for me to keep my RAID/SATA windows install and have the OSX86 read data from those drives. Is that possible? My motherboard has an Intel i925xe + ICH6R chipset. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintjude Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Assuming that OS X supports your ATA controller (mostly there have been problems with i965 chipsets), there shouldn't be a problem installing and running it off a seperate hard drive. Accessing the RAID is another question. If it were a hardware RAID you might have a decent shot, but I would be somewhat surprised if OS X can figure out a software-based RAID created in Windows. I have been able to read single Windows-formatted hard drives from OSx86, for what that may be worth, although some weird little problems popped up on the drive later; it's possible that there is a data corruption risk from using a Windows disk from OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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