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Mirroring two drives on the same cable?

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smp

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My KT7A (non raid) only has two ide connectors.
They are ata100
I was trying (still am sort of) to setup redhat 7.3 with a modded promise fasttrack, but it's not really going my way.
If I use software raid to mirror the drives
Is it better to have both drives on one cable and put the cdrom on another, alone?
Or better to have the cdrom as a slave on one of the hdds?

I'm thinking better to have the cdrom as slave, because once setup is complete I will hardly use it, freeing up as much bandwidth for the hdds.
 
I have software raid 0 on two ribbon IDE cables with slave and master and it is handling 4 30 gig maxtors fine. Not sure what you mean by "modified Promise fastrack".

I am not an expert, but my rig seems to work fine. Its on a promise fastrack controller as well.
 
Well .. thing is I'm trying to install redhat.
Modified promise fasttrack is a standard promise ultra 66 controller, that has been modded to fasttrack.
Basically, you get a cheapo promise ultra 66 controller, you solder a resistor and flash it's bios and you have a full fledged, working fasttrack.
Neato 🙂
Lots of people have done this, it was quite common in the day.
I'm not sure if it'll work with linux though.
 
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