Two RAID 0 questions

[Travis Fraser]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:46, Allan Metts wrote:
> 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
Putting a CDROM as a Slave to one of the hard drives should not hurt performance.

I have software raid 1 set up like this and use the CDROM for loading
software, updates, etc (no net access).

Travis Fraser