From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 14 4:49:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E929837B400 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 04:49:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id E274416B13 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:49:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from LenConrad.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A6DB277018C; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:08:43 +0100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020214064813.06ba9008@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 06:49:41 -0600 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: Best ATA RAID controller In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020214012729.049caf08@192.168.0.12> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:29 2002-02-14 -0500, you wrote: >Some of the other IDE raid cards will allow you to use a master and slave >on the same channel. From what I understand the problem with this is that >if a slave dies, it could potentially take out the master or vice versa. and isn't an inactive second device, such as a seldom used cdrom, slowing down the bus due to master/slave contention? Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message