On 3/29/07, tblader <tblader at flambeau.com> wrote: > > One drawback is software raid wants a single ide device on each ide channel. > This means buying an ide card (if you want more than two devices) which doesn't > always play well with the rest of the system (4+ ide devices). Some mainboards > might have more than two ide channels, but I just opted for the cheap ide card. > Can you please confirm the same or refer to some documentation indicating that ? I have recently added two HDDs as the slave devices on Primary and Secondary IDE channels configured as software raid devices where the two master devices on these IDE channels were already being used for software raid. Now I have 4 devices on two IDE channels with partition pairs configured as RAID-1 devices. So far all the raid devices are working fine though I do expect a deterioration in performance because of 4 devices on two channels. I would like to reconfirm if "single ide device on each ide channel" is true for software raid. Comments please. Thanks, -- Manish Kathuria