On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, TJ Harrell wrote: > > > I have a system that uses drives on all channels, eg master/slave. > > and I have encountered any slowdown, by using primary and secondary disks > > in the same channel. > > Yes it is slower, but for me performance is good enough. > > With two drives per channel, doesn't a disk failure pull down the other > drive, causing the entire array to fail, and require a reboot to bring the > degraded array back online? yes that is an additional failure mode possible when you use two ata drives on a channel. this isn't really a recommended configuration. you might have to dork with raid superblocks to recover from such a failure. in fact chances are you *will* have to dork with raid superblocks to recover. -dean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
