RAID tail of woe :(

[Dave S]

On Monday 01 May 2006 16:32, Kent Borg wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:37:33PM +0100, Dave S wrote:
> > I have posted before with RAID issues & thought I had it under control
> > but I need advice from you guys.
>
> I don't follow all the details of your setup.
>
> I am a fan of software raid 1.  No specialized hardware to trust (or
> to fail).  At least at the low price range, I don't see that hardware
> raid offers anything.
>
> Do you have IDA controllers on your motherboard?  Does software raid
> work with that?  Is it bootable?
>
>
> -kb

I am sorry if I was not clear.

In a nutshell I have Parallel ATA HDD on hda and hdc directly of off my 
motherboard running software raid 1 - it works like a dream and I am very 
happy with it.

However I have a CDROM and a DVDRW drive on hdb and hdd sharing the hda and 
hdc controllers. Because they cripple my system when I am reading or burning 
dvds I want to move them to another IDE controller, ie via a PCI card.

Unfortunately it seems my PCI Parallel ATA card cannot detect or boot CDROM or 
DVDRW drives attached to it.

Hope this clarifies things :)

Dave