Hi,
Would it be advisable to use SW-RAID using 2 different SATA controllers. My system happens to have both a VIA VT8237 and SIL3114 SATA controller, and I thought for both performance reason and redundancy using both for a 2 disk RAID1 array would be best.
But it's possible that SW-RAID does not like or cannot overcome problems with such a setup or that one of these drivers is known to have issues.
Any insight is welcome :) -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 04:18:36AM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
Would it be advisable to use SW-RAID using 2 different SATA controllers. My system happens to have both a VIA VT8237 and SIL3114 SATA controller, and I thought for both performance reason and redundancy using both for a 2 disk RAID1 array would be best.
I don't see why there'd be a problem.
Quoting Dag Wieers dag@wieers.com:
Would it be advisable to use SW-RAID using 2 different SATA controllers. My system happens to have both a VIA VT8237 and SIL3114 SATA controller, and I thought for both performance reason and redundancy using both for a 2 disk RAID1 array would be best.
But it's possible that SW-RAID does not like or cannot overcome problems with such a setup or that one of these drivers is known to have issues.
It should just work. Software RAID on Linux works on partition level, so basically it doesn't care where the disks are physically connected. They don't even need to be on the same type of the bus (you can mix and match IDE, SATA, SCSI, FW, USB).
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