Dave Sherohman wrote: [snip]
Any sort of true hardware RAID setup (beware the hybrids, since this doesn't apply to them) will interact with the rest of the system as a single device. The question of whether to put the individual drives on separate controllers or not doesn't apply, since the drives connect to the RAID controller and the RAID controller attaches to the SCSI (or IDE, I suppose, though I've never seen an IDE hardware RAID controller) bus as a single device. Even the BIOS thinks it's just one disk.
yup, there IDE RAID controllers out there. Whether they help speed or not I don't know. I am actually running one that does only RAID 1 for redundancy for my firewall. Cannot
afford to have that go down. :-) Robert --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org