Re: SCSI or IDE
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:21, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:15, Jones, Steven wrote:
> > If you lose the primary boot disk on software raid its not bootable in my
> > experience.
>
> That's often the case. If the disk entirely dies then the BIOS should be
> able to boot from the other disk, but if the disk partially fails then
> it'll probably not be bootable.
>
> But if you want to save money on hardware software RAID-1 is a very good
> option.
Im afriad I have to disagree, have you tried to boot off the second disk?
Im pretty sure its always the case, even with a totally dead primary disk. I
know of no motherboard that can find the second disk and have Linux realise
its booting off not the disk it expects.
Sun boxes will do it, but we arnt talking Sparc in here, (at least Im not)
Ive tested this scenario (after some clown bought a stack of compaq dp320s
against my advice.....PHB liked the price....doh) and on several machines i
have been unable to get the bios to boot the second disk with the primary
disk removed.
It simply does not work.
If you know of a motherboard that will do it please let me/us know, it might
get on my shopping list.
regards
Thing
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