'by putting in a crappy old IDE disk that contained /boot and the swap partition, and used the raid for everything else. It's been running 3 weeks without problems (well no ones asked me to mend it!)' --------------- you may find that using a crappy old IDE may slow the system down considerably if it starts paging a lot. You might find it interesting to make a swap partition on your big disk and then try doing something that swaps a lot to test which swap is faster - worth an afternoons playing as it can make a hell of a difference! Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
Mind you, if you're swapping a lot you're up shit creek anyway ;-) On 21-May-2002 tom potts wrote:
'by putting in a crappy old IDE disk that contained /boot and the swap partition, and used the raid for everything else. It's been running 3 weeks without problems (well no ones asked me to mend it!)' --------------- you may find that using a crappy old IDE may slow the system down considerably if it starts paging a lot. You might find it interesting to make a swap partition on your big disk and then try doing something that swaps a lot to test which swap is faster - worth an afternoons playing as it can make a hell of a difference! Tom
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