Re: Linux: Why software RAID?

Mark Lord
2006-08-24T14:56:00Z

Adam Kropelin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:20:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Generally speaking the channels on onboard ATA are independant with any
>> vaguely modern card.
>
> Ahh, I did not know that. Does this apply to master/slave connections on
> the same PATA cable as well?

No, it doesn't. Except for cards which use special cables,
such as the Pacific Digital ADMA cards (which can even run both
master and slave simultaneously on a cable, though not with
the current Linux drivers).

Cheers