> If you are suggesting that you should not use containers at all for IDE
> RAID, then there is a bit of a conundrum here. The point of RAID is
> (basically) to allow a machine to keep running if one of the disks
> fails. But if you don't have your disks in removeable containers, you
> will have to shutdown the machine to fix it anyway.
Given that you're not using hotswap controllers, you'll need to shut down
anyhow. I've heard of hotswap IDE controllers, but have never laid
hands on such a beast. If you're palanning on coming by some of them,
the encolsures do seem quite a bit more justified.
> I'll give it a go, but as I've mentioned in a previous message, Mandrake
> 8.0 is the first distro that has given me almost insuperable
> difficulties in recompiling the kernel. So I'll have to crack that
> first, but I guess I need to anyway. I think it's a problem with the
> Duron.
Definately nothing to do with the Duron - my workstation is a Duron 600
and I've probably built 1000 kernels on it. I can't comment too well
on Mandrake, since I use Slackware, but you might want to check that
you're not trying to use the gcc snapshot that RedHat shipped. The bad
version was 2.96.x - if 'gcc -v' claims that as it's version you need
to build with a different gcc, installed as 'kgcc'.
Ross Vandegrift
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