I know you can run two raid cards for duplexing... But, What about running one RAID adapter and one Standard adapter? Would be on two 64/66mhz PCI slots or would this swamp the PCI bus? Better to run a 64/66 RAID card and a 32/33 scsi adapter instead?
There shouldn't be any issues with running two seperate adapters, RAID or not, or even more for that matter the only problem you may run in to is swamping the PCI bus. If its the board in your sig, i *think* that the 64/66 slots are on a seperate bus to the 32/33 ones, in which case, it depends on how much bandwidth you expect each card to be pulling as to which bus you throw them on. how many and what model drives will be running on each card?
Will be the board in my sig unless I can get my grubby mits on a K7X Pro, which has 320 scsi onboard. RAID = 5 x 72.8GB 10,000rpm Ultra320 SCSI (Fujitsu) to start with... Whichever spare scsi drives for the rest... which range from 18GB through to 72GB Seagate/Fujitsu/Maxtor all 10K U160's at the moment.
I'd put the RAID card on the 64/66 bus on its own and then the rest of the cards on the 32/33 bus in that case
