On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:05:02PM -0500, Wayne Johnson wrote: > I was thinking about trying a Software Raid 5 configuration. I've got a > WDD 20 GB and two WDD 40GB drives. I was thinking of setting up a 20GB > raid segment on each, and use the remaining 40GB for /tmp and On-disk > backups. > If you are just going to use the extra 40gb for on-disk backups, I'd say forget the RAID-5 and do a RAID-1 with the two 40gb drives. Otherwise, get another 40gb drive to do your RAID-5. Forget about the 20gb drive. Also, make sure each drive in the RAID is the only drive on each IDE channel. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO-2.html -David _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list