Manish Kathuria spake the following on 3/29/2007 10:29 AM: > 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, > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/msg07408.html -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!