----- Original Message ----- From: "Iacopo Spalletti" <avvisi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 5:45 PM Subject: Re: Best solution > Il 17.15 09/01/2002, =?iso-8859-15?Q?Eerin_Mikael_Rosenstr=F6m?= ha scritto: > Is it safe to make the array in promise bios, but using the raid controller > only as an eide controller? I'm currently running Linux Software RAID with the disks connected to FastTrak. I have left some free space (couple of megs) at the end of the disks (like Eerin Rosenström said) and it seems to work. I have some doubt about the transfer speed, though. hdparm -Tt says that the buffered read speed is about 40 MB/sec. The disks are Seagate Barracudas (UDMA 100) with an internal transfer rate of 555 Mbit/s (= 66 MB/s). I don't know what would the transfer rate be, if the disks were connected to the onboard IDE controller. Maybe the effective read speed is lower than 66 MB/s. Regards, Peter Szymanski (szyman@xxxxxxxxxx)
