Hi Ed, Thanks for your detail answer to my questions and time spent.
At 06:41 AM 12/19/2001 -0600, you wrote: >On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 23:04, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > At 06:40 AM 12/18/2001 -0600, you wrote: > > >RAID 5 is striping + mirroring. I recommend that this not be done on > > >IDE drives unless you've invested in extra controllers. You need at > > >least 3 drives to make a RAID 5 set. > > > > Whether a special controller with 3 channels for connecting 3 hard > discs is > > needed ? > > Or you need 3/5 controllers for 3/5 hard discs ? > > What kind of controller it is ? > >You can do this in hardware or software. Ideally, you always want each >member of a RAIDset on a separate channel, especially with IDE drives >that don't support transfers to multiple devices on the same channel at >the same time. Sorry, I still has not got your answer to this point. 1) Is RAID 5 controller differs from other controller in design ? 2) How many channels it has ? 3) If it has 3 channels only, how can I connect 5 hard discs to it? Therefore I have to connect 2 hard discs as slave. I just found following document from Internet : http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue45/nielsen.html#5 http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.6 talking about RAID 5 in brief Thanks B.R. Stephen _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
