On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 11:52:57PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, dorn hetzel wrote: > > I wound up using a PATA boot disk and just use the 4 SATA > > disks after booting. When I have more time, I do hear it's > > There's no need for that. As soon as you can get a kernel that suports SATA > right to execute on system startup, you need no PATA disks anymore. > I should have also said that all of my SATA disks are organized into md raid devices and that's what I ran into trouble booting from. I've been told it can be done, I just had the PATA drive available and it was the path of least resistance :)
On a side note, with a raid0 stripe across the PATA and 4*SATA raptors, I'm getting sustained 240+ megabytes/second read and write :) Makes for a very nice /tmp ... -Dorn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
