hi ya will On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote:
> lemme check to make sure i grok the recommendation -- HDA and > HDB are primary and secondary on the first bus (C: and D: in > windows parlance), and HDC and HDD are primary and secondary on > the second bus (E: and F: in windows parlance). yup > so it's best to have a raid1 disk on each bus -- but do they > both have to be primary? the problem is ... on some bios and drives, if hda is dead, sometimes it never see hdb ( so its bad to use hda and hdb ) it's also bad to use hda and hdb because its "ide" on one ide cable so one disk have to wait for the other disk best config: hda + hdd and hdb + hdc - both raid has a primary disk and a slave - if you have a cdrom, put that on a $5 or $20 pci ide card - do NOT mix cdrom/dvd drives with disks on the same ide cable c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]