DANGER!!! Problems with 10.04 installer (RAID devices *will* get corrupted)

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 04/23/2010 12:25 PM, J wrote:
> 
>      The things I have have learned are this:
> 
>      You can get a RAID controller hardware with all the types of hard 
> drives made. So the people who make RAID controllers do not have an 
> opinion on which hard drive type is best. You buy your hard drives, and 
> then the controller which lets you plug in the hard drives.

	But they do prefer SCSI & SATA. IDE/EIDE is an after thought for 
consumers. Have a look at what comes in business class workstations, and 
the numbers of each sold.

>      My take on SATA is that the plugs are cheap. They are extensions of 
> the printed wiring board so you do not want to plug and unplug very often.
> 
>      The next is the IDE which is the old standard with a parallel port 
> with 50 pins. It is said the SATA is a bit faster than the IDE.

	IDE is not a parallel port. And it has only 40 pins on the cable. 80 
pin for the newer EIDE (?) format. SCSI drives use 50 pin cables. 
Parallel ports are external 25 pin connectors.

>       By pure logic it tells me that a lot of RAID systems are made with 
> SATA drives because they are easy to get, are cheap ( if anything is 
> cheap these days), and work fine.

	This I agree with, but I couldn't follow your logic to this point.

> 73 Karl
> 
> 


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