Subject: Re: question on best way to install other ide drives?
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Sun Feb 17 2002 - 14:52:04 MST
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>(A). IDE does not do a terribly good job of sharing bus bandwidth
>between two active devices, so the ideal case for performance is one
>IDE bus per device.
>
>That said, you'll never be impacted if your workload never attempts
>to exercise both the slave and master at the same time.
iirc, the sonet has 2 busses.
Ben.
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