[Gllug] Problems on a box running RAID 1

[Nix]

On 15 Sep 2007, Chris Bell spake thusly:

> On Fri 14 Sep, Nix wrote:
>> No no no! You'll get *awful* performance if you do that, and on most IDE
>> and ATAPI systems I've seen, if one drive on a cable dies it takes the
>> others out with it.
>> 
>    Exactly why I separated the drives in the first place. I still do not
> understand why the CD/DVD does not read or write without problems, but could
> use a SCSI CD if I can find one that works, and have another box that does
> work perfectly (Fujitsu-Siemens P4-3.6GHz motherboard with single IDE but
> four SATA, using an IDE CD/DVD and two pairs of RAID1 SATA drives).

I've got a SCSI CD-ROM drive I'm not using: if you want I could pull it
out of the carcass of the machine it's in and send it to you. (It's
about the only part of that machine that was not static-fried.)

No controller or spare DVD drive I'm afraid but you can get sym53c875s
at the TCR fair most weeks.

> Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house.

Linux gives you bits you can assemble a prefab house with and a phone
with which you can call a very helpful guy called Neil Brown who
designed the house and can give you advice on turning it into a mansion.

-- 
`Some people don't think performance issues are "real bugs", and I think 
such people shouldn't be allowed to program.' --- Linus Torvalds
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