Often some BIOSes detect the geometry of the drives differently if they are split between primary and secondary controllers. Having paired drives on a single controller is fine, the interface is faster than the drives anyway, and the geometry problem hardly ever occurs... Software RAID on Linux works extremely well, unlike software RAID M$ Windoze...which hogs resources... P. William Warren wrote: > There is nothing wrong with software RAID. Unless you are using > intense I/O software RAID has just as much security and performance as > hardware RAID. > > <flamesuit on> > > Michiel van Es wrote: > >> >> William Warren wrote: >> >>> is this hardware or software RAID..also what hardware do you have >>> this running on? >>> >>> Nigel Kendrick wrote: >>> >>>> Is my new 300GB RAID 1 array REALLY going to take 18936 minutes to >>>> sync!!??? >>>> >>>> >> >> And what about your hardware set up? >> Havind 2 IDE disks on the same IDe cable and using softraid is not a >> good idea. >> >> Michiel >> >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at caosity.org >> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >