Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:22:15 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, <sbernard@gmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best ATA RAID controller Message-ID: <4.3.2.20020214111215.0367d940@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020214012729.049caf08@192.168.0.12> References: <ea3892ea3cf0.ea3cf0ea3892@gmu.edu>
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At 01:29 AM 2/14/02 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: >Some of the other IDE raid cards will allow you to use a master and slave >on the same channel. From what I understand the problem with this is that >if a slave dies, it could potentially take out the master or vice versa. Performance is the issue and reason why 3Ware uses one drive per channel. After all, only one drive on a channel can talk at the same time. Knowing that it's easy to understand why 3Ware does much better than those using master/slave pairs. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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