In an effort to keep things simple, here's an overview of what I
envision doing:
---- I'm planning to build an aluminum chasis to hold 4 3.5 in IDE 120GB hard drives. The drives will be connected to 2 IEEE 1394b bridgeboards, and then to a 1394b controller card inside a Linux box. I will then use Linux Software RAID5 to create a single 360GB disk out of the 4 drives. ----With that said.. I know there's a lot of potential problems. Can mdadm handle drives over a 1394b link? Do the drives need to be connected to seperate host adapters? etc. etc.
Has anyone dealt with this situation, or have better ideas about building a cheap DIY external RAID system under Linux?
As ever,
Brice Burgess
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