Re: scsi-ide raid-0/1/5

2000-04-11 Thread m . allan noah
uhh- maybe cause you are compairing two completely different systems? try using the same size and number of disks, same motherboard, same cpu, same everything but the disks and controller, before you try to compair scsi to ide... allan octave klaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > I made the t

scsi-ide raid-0/1/5

2000-04-11 Thread octave klaba
Hi, I made the tests between ide and scsi soft raid and I do not understand why scsi 2940u2w seems to be slower that ide on promise !? thanks for your help octave PIII500/256/SCSI-2/RAID-1/2xIBM18Go7200 2.2.12 Dir Size BlkSz Thr# Read (CPU%) Write (CPU%) Seeks (CPU%) - -- --

Re: IDE RAID 0

1999-03-08 Thread Tim Moore
I couldn't read WINMAIL.DAT but I use RAID0 and EIDE drives (2.0.36 kernel): [tim@asus]$ cat /etc/raidtab raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 0 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 16 device /dev/hdg7 raid-disk

Re: IDE RAID 0

1999-03-07 Thread m. allan noah
yes- we use raid0 on two ide disks for cacheing. i dont recommend that for anything important though (/, /usr, /var, etc.) we have a big /squid that we use for raid0, everthing else is raid1 on the same two disks. doubling your chance of downtime due to hd failure seems irresponsible of your own

IDE RAID 0

1999-03-07 Thread Ray Wieczorek
I've been reading the mailing list for some time but haven't come across anybody using IDE drives in a stripping configuration so here goes. I have an 80486DX4 100Mhz Intel clone box and two identical Western Digital 850MB drives. What I would like to do is put one of these drives on each IDE