super long boot times (20+mins)

[Kevin Brown]

> Anyways, the only thing I changed on the machine after getting it was 
> setting up the 6 SCSI drives as one big stripe, and made the IDE drive 
> the primary boot drive.

With that many drives you could do a RAID 5 setup and then you'd have 
redundancy in case of drive failure in the array.  If you don't want to 
setup a hot spare then you'd only lose the capacity of one of the drives 
in the array.