Upgrade path

Hi,

Got a quick question. I just bought a 120GB hard drive for my system. I am currently running lvm-1.0.6, but I am also considering upgrading to lvm2.

Right now, I have the following:

hda Maxtor 30GB
hdb LG DVD ROM

hdc Maxtor 30GB
hdd LG CD-RW

hde WD 30GB

The 30GB drive on hde (on the on-board Promise PDC20265 controller) locks the system when I boot with the drive connected. Not sure if it is a bad drive or some idiosyncracy with the controller. Now I have been told that you take a pretty severe performance hit on the controller with a drive and a CD on the same chain. So what I am thinking i
s
hda Maxtor 30GB
hdb Maxtor 30GB

hdc WD 120GB
hdd WD 30GB

hde DVD ROM
hdf CD-RW

or

hdg CD-RW

What would be the best drive configuration and upgrade path to lvm2? I'm particularly concerned about scattering the drives to the wind and "losing" them to lvm or having a lot of bogus lvm data floating around that I can't get rid of.

Thoughts?

--Brad
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