He meant "you shouldn't be doing that" - he is right, also if a drive goes out it can cause the ide bus to also have problems. <br><br>one drive per ide bus - get pci ide card if you need more hd's<br><br>configure both as master w/ software raid 1 and mirror all partitions - you can pull either drive and still boot the system - i have done it several times.
<br><br>-chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Dwerryhouse</b> <<a href="mailto:paul@dwerryhouse.com.au">paul@dwerryhouse.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 05:48:51PM -0600, Carl Karsten wrote:<br>> so I am guessing I have to make each drive the master<br>> on a seperate ide bus so that pulling one won't take out the other.<br><br>You should be doing that anyway - the Linux RAID Howto suggests that
<br>your performance will be killed if you have two drives from one mirror<br>on a single bus.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Paul<br><br>--<br>Paul Dwerryhouse | PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584<br>========================================================================
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