Title: Message
Hi
 
AFAIK its a bad idea to put slave IDE devices into a software RAID set. Firstly it will upset performance and secondly there's a good chance that if you lost one of the disks on that channel then it would take out the other also. (ie loose the Primary master and the Primary slave goes too. So even if the Primary slave wasn't physically bad you'd still end up doing recovery on both arrays)
 
I have 2 X 2 channel PATA cards and tried putting slave devices on and I had problems even getting the OS to see the drives properly to create the RAID set. Got timeouts etc trying to bring a RAID5 set online. I now have 4 disks on these 2 controllers in RAID5 all on the masters and a RAID1 set for my OS on the motherboard IDE masters.
 
I guess there's no harm in trying, YMMV but I think even the RAID howto it advises against it.
 
Cheers
 
Paul
 
 
Paul Barker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Powered by Plaxo Want a signature like this?
 
_______________________________________________
mythtv-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Reply via email to