On Feb 24, 2004, Allan Metts <ametts2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --1-- Do I need to put the two drives on separate controllers? Yes. IDE doesn't permit simultaneous access to disks on the same controller. Well, you could make do with two disks on a single controller, but performance would be terrible. > --2-- Does RAID 0 require identical drive sizes and geometries like > RAID 1 does? Or is it possible to span drives of differing sizes? If you really want RAID 0 (i.e., striping, such that both disk heads have to move simultaneously to satisfy even small reads, which is good for fast sequential access to big files), then you have to have identical geometries. If random access is more of the rule, you'll probably be better off with linear raid, in which case the size of individual disks doesn't matter. I'd consider throwing LVM into the picture, since it would make the set up far more flexible and manageable, but let's go one step at a time :-) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Happy GNU Year! oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer
