[Gllug] pata software Raid

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Peter Ball wrote:

> I'm putting together a couple of Raid 5 boxes using recycled components
> using the Root-on- LVM-on-RAID-HOWTO.
> 
> The Software-RAID-HOWTO gives very good reasons why not to put 2 ide disks on the 
> same bus.
> 
> However is there any reason why you shouldn't put a cd or dvd as a secondary on one of 
> the buses ?
> 
> Does it make any difference if you use a (presumably faster) dvd instead of a cd drive ?

So long as you are not using the device it's safe enough.

> Does it make any difference if you pull out the cd drive after installing the OS ?

None at all. Your system should be configured such that removable media 
will not be mounted unless actually there.

Jason
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