I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE
drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up
swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.
Unfortunately I think I read somewhere that when you have a Master/Slave
IDE pair, only one of the disks can be accessed at any one time, so that
having the swap partition on a separate disk doesn't help.
However my motherboard is capable of using 4 ide devices. It has two
pairs:
Primary Master/Primary Slave
and
Secondary Master/Secondary Slave
What if I put linux on one of the primary disks, and the swap partition on
a secondary disk, will that mean both disks can be accessed at the same
time, hence giving a swap speedup?
Thanks,
Mark.
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