In a few minutes I will begin to reconfigure , reload XP, and get ready for Slackware. Presently have 2 SATA drives in RAID 0. Intention is to use drive 1 for XP, drive 2 for Linux. Is there anything that I shoulld/should not do when re-installing XP? Are there any problems using separate drives for each OS? Is that the best way to go? Will there be problems booting?

Not much to do when installing XP. If you have two separate drives, that eliminates the process or splitting up the drive into partitions etc.

No problems installing on separate drives, but like you mentioned, put XP on the first one as it doesn't like to be on the second drive.

Not sure if there will be problems booting until you install. Just make sure to configure whatever boot loader you want to use, either the XP or NT Loader or Lilo which comes with Slackware...

Cheers and good luck.

Thanks trickykid....what I was really wondering if I would have any special problems booting since both SATA drives are master.....

This is the first time I failed to get a reply on this forum....is my question too hard?....too dumb?....or is there a lack of experience with SATA?

I don't recall having seen it come up before. I would just give a guess or opinion. I did google for "sata raid linux" and had a lot of apparent informational pages.

R%ingwraith...have been to many many Google sites but none address my situation...always something just a little different....or outdated, or obscure to a noobe like me...thanks for your suggestion though....rt

Not sure if this will work for you cause I have an intel 875 board wich has the sata controller built into the southbridge, not a seperate chipset)

First you'll need to make your raid 0 arrasy go by-bye so you can use the two seperate drives. The one hooked up to sata0 will be seen as hda and the one on sata1 will be seen as hdb. I have this same setup with winxp on sata0 and slack 9.1 (with kernel 2.6.0-test9) on sata1. You might need to use the expert setup of lilo to setup the boot sequence (i had to cause the auto lilo setup didn't add my winxp drive).

Thanks Kbrooks...what I wanted to hear....is there a big problem with Expert Lilo?

no big probs with expert lilo setup. pretty easy to setup. just load it on the mbr of hda and fill in the info for your linux drive and winxp drive.

Thanks again Kbrooks.....rt