16 Nov
2005
16 Nov
'05
11:38 a.m.
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 07:41 +0000, Nigel kendrick wrote:
That was considered at the time but we found that any combination of mirroring using the motherboard-based controller and the plugged in one wasn't stable (unbootable or soon locked-up) - the only way we could get mirroring to work was if both drives were on the 8212-based controller.
In reading Cox's notes on the 8212 awhile back, I distinctly remember that he did not have a lot of faith in using the 8212 as a "dumb" ATA controller with 2 channels. It's clearly rigged in hardware to always be used as a hardware stripe/mirror logic.
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