On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:31:07AM +0200, Niclas Arndt wrote:
You should only use 1 drive per IDE channel, set up as master. The way IDE is designed, a broken slave might well bring the whole channel down.
Isn't that the way I described it? Or are you talking about the extention scenario where I want to use 2 arrays?
You also don't want to use different interface standards / speeds on the same channel, as the channel (bus) will autonegotiate to the highest (hopefully) common standard / speed. DVD:s and CD-ROM:s are typically slower than hard drives.
That's why I put the DVD and Operating System disk on one channel, and only use the masters of all other channels for my RAID-5 array. My OS disk doesn't need a lot of speed, and the DVD drive is mostly for installation purposes. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff