> > Some people find that their IDE controller works fine until they try > to use RAID1. RAID1 hits multiple discs concurrently a lot, and some > (few, specific) ide controllers don't appear to cope. You probably > would not get that with hardware raid. You can with software raid > because it is a "whole-system" thing. > > Did I do anything wrong? I didn't see RAID 1 hits multiple drives concurrently, specially for reading. I set up RAID 5, RAID 1 and single disk partitions on x86 machine, kernel 2.4-18. For 800 MB breading, RAID 5 take 2/3 of time used by single disk, but RAID 1 take 1.1 of time used by single disk. Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
