Two RAID 0 questions
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Wed Feb 25 19:41:18 UTC 2004
Am Mi, den 25.02.2004 schrieb Allan Metts um 14:46:
> At 05:29 AM 2/25/2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> >Yes. IDE doesn't permit simultaneous access to disks on the same
> >controller. Well, you could make do with two disks on a single
> >controller, but performance would be terrible.
>
>
> Okay, two IDE identical drives -- one will be the Master on the Primary
> controller, the other will be the Master on the Secondary controller.
>
> Next question: Will it hurt anything to put the CDROM drive as the Slave on
> the secondary controller? This is a no-no in the SCSI world, since I think
> it slows the entire bus down to the speed of the slowest device. But I
> need a CDROM to actually install Fedora, and I'd rather not buy an
> additional controller....
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Allan
It's no problem to have a CD-ROM as slave together with a harddrive on
the same controller. It will not slow down the whole controller.
Alexander
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