Hi Stephen, Ed,
> Ideally, you'd connect each drive to a separate IDE channel. It doesn't matter
> if one is the master on its bus and the other is slave, as long as both drives
> are on separate channels.
I would suggest you only use the devices as master, or it might be your RAID
device is waiting for the master device. The best (fastest) thing to do is to
not use any slave devices, or maybe only a cdrom you seldomly use.
> I picked up a Promise TX2 ATA/100 controller from http://www.mwave.com for less
> than $30 and added 2 new ATA100 40GB drives to it. This makes I/O *very* fast.
I made a RAID 5 device with 3 disks using the same controller. Indeed, very
fast. Read speeds of twice the speed of a single channel (up to 70 MB/s hdparm
-tT values). Write speed about equal to a single disk, but since this is a web
server that'll do.
CU,
Leonard.
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