Re: RAID5 slowness (how to fix?)

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:22:33 +1000, Grant wrote:

This is plain silly, pop an IDE card in and run each HDD as
master on cable end as master only. What you have right now
is a dataloss waiting to happen.

I don't disagree; especially if it will also give a speed boost. This was
my first RAID configuration (ever) so I guess I made a few mistakes.

I'll see if I can round up an IDE controller card.

BTW, is there an easy way to move the hard drives onto a controller card,
meaning, do I have to do anything with mdadm or such tools to migrate the
drives? Hope I don't have to reformat the raid or anything silly like that..


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