Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IDE hotplug support? | Date | Thu, 2 May 2002 21:26:38 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> >=20 > > 8 x 130MBy/s >>>> PCI bus throughput... I would rather recommend > > a classical RAID controller card for this kind of > > setup. > > Because RAID controllers do not use the PCI bus ??? ;)
The raid card transfers the data once, software raid once per device for Raid 1/5 - thats a killer.
> By the way, has anyone tried such larger multi-controller setups, and t= > ested > the bandwidth in configurations with multiple PCI busses on the board, = > versus a > single PCI bus ?
With 2.4 yes. With all the 2.5 changes no. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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