Re: couple of things...

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

> Jason Montleon wrote:
> Here is what I want to do:
> Add the two 8GB drives (so that all three [same model] 8GB hard drives
> are on one IDE controller) and create a software RAID.  The idea is to

??? 2 or three disks?
It's best to have each disk as a master and no slave for
best performance.

> Naturally if possible I would like to keep the IDE CD-ROM drive and
> add an IDE CD-R.  And don't forget the tape drive.

Get a SCSI CDR instead. Possibly even get SCSI disks.

> What kind of power supply am I going to need for 7 devices (300 watt?
> 400 watt?)

My 300W  PS handles my 3 disks and CD fine. This is a Athlon
T-bird 800 (SlotA) which uses a LOT more power
than a P166. So it should be fine for you.

I have 2x10G drives with SWRAID (md.o) on my Athlon system.
I have them as Masters on the builtin controller (hda and hdc)
I also have 4G on hdb and a CDROM on hdd.

This is a little faster than when the 10G disks were hda and hdb.

For what you want, I'd buy a addin IDE card.
Don't was money on the "RAID" cards, since most of them
don't work in RAID mode w/ linux and the md.0 RAID
driver is faster too.

	-Thomas