> >   1) The smallest component will be the limiting factor on the size of
the
> > RAID set.
> >   2) There may be detrimental performance implications to mixing disks
of
> > different speeds.
>
> That's fine -  I'm nursing an old SS4 with twin 2Gb SCSIs,
> so it's not going to be setting any speed records anyway - just a
> sacrificial lamb until I get my head round how RF works, then
> I'll try it on my main servers.

You just tweaked my interest with this last statement. I had assumed that
you would need a special RAID card in order to make use of RAIDframe. So can
I use RAIDframe on any kind of SCSI or IDE interface, provided I have two or
more disks?

Thanks,

Jeff Flowers
jeffrey@jeffreyf.net