RE: [cobalt-users] Hard Drive Config - RaQ4r

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Bob Noordam wrote:
> >
> > How should the hard drives in a RaQ4r be
> > configured....masters...slaves....cable select...or none at all?
>
> Master slave will work, but two primary masters is best. The idea behind
> that is, that a bad ide drive will often lock up the bus. If you use a
> single bus master/slave construction it will almost certainly lock up both
> drives in case of a failure. Using two masters will give you a bigger change
> that the server will keep running in case of a lockup of one of the IDE
> busses.

also worth mentioning, drive access will be slower...

Gerald
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