On 03/15 05:05 , Les Mikesell wrote: > That is probably the best approach, but note that if you boot > with grub you need to manually install it on the 2nd drive > of the raid (or both, depending on the OS distribution and version). > Also, many IDE disk failure modes will keep the machine from > booting at all until the drive is removed. I'm not sure if > that is a problem with SATA also or not.
that's the main reason I avoid software RAID these days. I've seen disks fail in that way quite often; either crashing the box or just killing performance. (Bad drives sending constant bus resets, etc). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
