Two RAID 0 questions

[Alexander Dalloz]

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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