Ello,
Before i start i know you shouldnt really partition a RAID'd drive.
I have 2*80Gb in RAID1 (mirroring). I want to use it in a 40gb/40gb partition... straight down the middle. One will have WinXP as i need somewhere to dl my stuff at the mo. The other will be Win2003 all set up the max... Basically can i expect any big probs? I will be formatting the Win2003 partition on a regular basis for other things.
Another option to throw at you... What about 3 partitions on the RAID1 setup... I want a 99% chance of the other partitions not going screwy.
Also am i going to have problems with two other drives (2*320Gb) depending what OS they are associated to... e.g. Win2003 is it going to put some permissions etc.. and write them to HD so XP cant access it if i boot from the XP partition? Or does 2003 put some of its own data at the start of the HD... e.g. i can still install the driver for the HDs but i will have trouble doing things with the extra HDs or when i log back in 2003 it would throw a fit?