[Gllug] Hardware IDE RAID

[Xander D Harkness]

Simon Faulkner wrote:

>> If you have a look at the software RAID howto it says that each drive 
>> should be on a separate controller as one failing can kill the 
>> other.....
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> Oh yes.
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>> The CD will slow one of the drives down, the only way round that is 
>> to buy a PCI IDE controller - or live with it.
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> Just found one :-)
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> What hardware RAID card would you use given a choice?
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I have been running hardware and software raid for a few years and 
always found mylex raid controllers very good.  These are quite pricy 
for domestic use.

On the software RAID front I have used any PCI IDE adapter I ould find 
and they have worked very well.  The only hiccough I have found is that 
the PCI IDE controllers have a tendency to swap drives around.  So when 
you install a kernel it will install it to what it sees as /dev/hda yet 
/dev/hda is actually /dev/hdg during boot :-)  It is really very good 
method to learn the grub command prompt :-)

Kind regards
Xander

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> Simon


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