[plug] Don't do that!

[Xander D Harkness]

Brad Campbell wrote:

>
>> Load averages were in excess of 6 with 98% IO wait.
>>
>> In part, that's due to the single IDE channel with master and slave
>> mirroring.
>
>
> Oooh. What happens if one drive dies and takes out the IDE channel? 
> (Not an unheard of occurence with IDE disks).

The software RAID howto recommends using a separate IDE channel for each 
disk because the chances are that if you lose one disk it will take out 
the other.

PCI - IDE cards are pretty cheap.

Kind regards
Xander