Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 01 Sep 2003 07:41:48 +0800 | From | Nick Urbanik <> | Subject | Re: Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? |
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Dear Folks,
Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> Hi Nick, > > On Friday 29 August 2003 16:00, Nick Urbanik wrote: > > > > Performance is a relatively minor issue compared with stability and > > low cost. > > > > Is there _anyone_ who is using a number of ATA133 IDE disks (>=6), > > each on its own IDE channel, on a number of PCI IDE cards, and > > doing so successfully and reliably? I begin to suspect not! If > > so, please tell us what motherboard, IDE cards you are using. I > > used to imagine that a terabyte of RAID storage on one P4 machine > > with ordinary cheap IDE cards with software RAID would be feasible. > > I believe it is not (although I cannot afford to play musical > > motherboards). > > It is. I'm running several pretty stable systems with IDE SW RAID 5 > on top of Promise TX2/100 (~30 Eur) controllers.
Is that the PDC20270 chipset? What motherboard are you using (i.e., I guess you are using two IDE channels on the motherboard, so what chipset are you using there)? What kernel? Are you using ide-scsi at the same time? A DVD player? If so, how have you connected them? What is the biggest number of hard disks you are using? What size?
I would like to try this out myself. Thank you---this is the first success story I have heard!
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