On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:54:48 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:52:04PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Spoken like someone who's failed to grasp the concept of multiple > simultaneous IOs. >
There's also been some talk about the disadvantages of two IDE disks on one channel. I'm running six disks on three channels on my home desktop, but I don't have much of a problem with this. Example: One slave is my XP installation and Linux backup space; another slave is XP and Linux backup space. Neither of those are heavily used unless I'm running backups. I have planned my partitoning and physical disk mapping to minimize simultaneous operations on one channel. My experience has been that, for a desktop, one can buy cheap IDE disks, work around the channel sharing issue and get satisfactory throughput. As with most things, it just takes a bit of thought and planning. -- ....................paul Programming without a hex editor is like watchmaking without a hammer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
