> Also the software raid howto says its a bad idea to put to drives on the same > IDE channel (for performance reasons). Is this still the case with ataraid? > Or could I use four drives if I wanted to? > > Regards, > > Per This is a fundamental limitation of IDE. Only the master or the slave on a given cable can ever be communicating at any one time. I run two Ultra100's (4 masters, no slaves) to avoid this limit. Two Promise cards will daisy chain nicely, but I don't know if the onboard version will.
