Re: NW 3.12, IDE, Mirroring

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From: Tim Banner
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:00

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>IDE is a poor choice for mirroring. If you have to use IDE, make sure that
>the drives are on separate channels. If not, you are wasting a 4gig drive.
>The reason being is that if the master goes down, so does the slave.
>

I was under the impression that your couldn't mirror IDE drives that are on
the same channel anyway.  I'm no expert, but I think Supervising the Network
II says you can't do it because of the way the IDE channel works.  OK thats
not verbatim but it wasn't much more technical than that :)

Not really a constructive comment, but just adding my 2cents as well.

Tim

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From: "Tim Banner" <tpb100DELETEUPPERCASE@cwcom.net>
Subject: Re: NW 3.12, IDE, Mirroring
Date: 1999/06/24
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