Re: [cobalt-users] Is is possible to "mirror" RAQ2s?

[Geoff Baysinger <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Additionally, RaQ2 and RaQ3 only have 1 master IDE channel ... when you add 
a second hard drive to either of these boxen it has to be as an IDE slave. 
With the way IDE works, the master and slave do not operate simultaneously. 
RAID-1 (or any RAID) relies on the ability to be able to simultaneously 
read/write data from all drives.

The RaQ4r has 2 master IDE channels (via 2 controllers). The RAID-1 is 
setup so that each drive is an independent IDE master.

The only way to get RAID-1 running on a RaQ2 or RaQ3 is to have the 
high-end model (RaQ2+, RaQ3i) and attach the drive via SCSI. This may 
introduce timing problems since the drives use different bus interfaces.

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