On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Adam Kropelin wrote: > > Generally speaking the channels on onboard ATA are independant with any > > vaguely modern card. > > Ahh, I did not know that. Does this apply to master/slave connections on > the same PATA cable as well? I know zero about PATA, but I assumed from > the terminology that master and slave needed to cooperate rather closely. I don't know much about co-operation between master & slave, but I do know that a failing PATA IDE drive can take out the other one on the same bus - or in my case, render it unusable until I removed the dead drive, whereupon (to my relief) it sprang back into life. This was many many moons ago before I started to use s/w RAID, but it's one thing that would kill a multi-disk array, so I've never done it since. I guess the same could happen on SCSI, but I suspect the interface is a little better designed... Gordon - 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
