You might want to look at www.3ware.com and the Escalade IDE controllers.
These are multichannel, with every device a master. They have Linux
drivers, support various RAID levels, and are fairly inexpensive.
Chris
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:35:00PM -0000, John Kennedy wrote:
> > Should I remove the CDROM after installing RH-7.0
> > or is it advisable/possible to buy a separate
> > IDE controller card to connect 'just to' the IDE CDROM?
>
> The latter is certainly correct if you're worried about performance.
>
> I know that an operating CDROM as a slave _will_ slow transfers. I'm not
> certain if just its presence, operating or not, will slow the bus--my
> gut response is not. (But I'm certain that if I'm wrong, the collective
> intellect here will correct me _muy pronto_.)
>
> But if you have any intentions of making this production, or just
> wanting predictable performance, yes, get another controller card.
> And it needn't be an expensive one, since the CDROM isn't used often
> (relatively speaking.)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Dave Ihnat
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