On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:28:34PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > Yes. If you put one disk on each ide channel/adapter/whatever and if > you put swap partitions on each drive, you will get a speedup as the > kernel is able to use both partitions concurrently (up to a point).
On the other hand, Linux 2.0.x doesn't seem to properly support DMA on Intel Triton chipsets for the secondary controller; I get a timeout and "DMA disabled" when it detects the disks. This appears to be fixed in 2.1 though. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
