On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:05:27AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > I am aware of hardware RAID on M$Win OS using a controller connecting to 2 > hard discs. But I am interested to learn whether Linux offers software > controller to connect 2 hard discs. If "Yes" then how to make connection > to 2 discs ? One to Primary IDE another to Secondary IDE, both as master > ? Or to the same IDE, one as master another as slave ?
Ideally, you'd connect each drive to a separate IDE channel. It doesn't matter if one is the master on its bus and the other is slave, as long as both drives are on separate channels. The reason for this is that IDE does not allow for simultaneous access to two drives on the same channel. I picked up a Promise TX2 ATA/100 controller from http://www.mwave.com for less than $30 and added 2 new ATA100 40GB drives to it. This makes I/O *very* fast. I used Linux software-based RAID 1 to mirror my first few partitions and left 2 un-mirrored partitions to hold data backups. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
