IDE Raid

[Joe]

I am setting up a computer using IDE Raid 0 Two 80 gig drives. Is it better
to put them as master and slave on one IDE chain and Master my IDE DVD on
the second chain or Put both of them as Masters on two separate chains and
Slave the DVD?

Joe

 

[kony]

I am setting up a computer using IDE Raid 0 Two 80 gig drives. Is it better
to put them as master and slave on one IDE chain and Master my IDE DVD on
the second chain or Put both of them as Masters on two separate chains and
Slave the DVD?

Joe

Put them on opposing channels, or "chains" as you call them.
Only in a scenario where you didn't care at all about HDD
performance but were constantly burning DVDs and wanted
utmost DVD performance, would you consider leaving the DVD
alone on a channel.

 

[DaveW]

Wrong. You CANNOT use the drives in that configuration for RAID arrays.
You need to plug each harddrives' data cable into its corresponding RAID
socket on your motherboard.

 

[mhaase-at-springmind.com]

Wrong. You CANNOT use the drives in that configuration for RAID arrays.
You need to plug each harddrives' data cable into its corresponding RAID
socket on your motherboard.

Unless he's using Software RAID.

 

[Joe]

Well I did. They are only two IDE connectors on the board. I set it up as
Kony Suggested. One Drive as a master on each channel and the DVD as slave
on one. The Raid Bios let me set up the two drives striped in Raid 0 and it
created one 152 Gig drive out of the two 80 gig drives and as far as windows
is concerned My C drive is 152 Gigs
Joe