There is a possibility that the slave can die if the master goes down.
Therefore the purpose of RAID1 availability goes away in this situation.
What's still left is RAID1 data protection, that means even if your box
stops
or do not boot anymore your data should still be ok, since only one of
the two
disks failed. Therefore adding a fresh disk, and reconstructing the
array will
just work fine.
But after hearing all the discussions about the drawbacks (both from a
reliability
and performance point of view) of IDE raid in
master/slave configurations, I would never use that kind of config.
If you need more IDE channels in your box add a promise card,
or a 3Ware card, which supports up to 8 IDE channels (8 disks in
master-only configuration).
Benno.
Edward Schernau wrote:
> If I have a RAID1 set on a single IDE channel, i.e. master & slave,
> will the box keep running if a drive goes down?
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