[rescue] Sun Blade 100 Question - IDE

[Tim H.]

On Fri, 10 May 2002 10:01:44 -0400
Kurt Huhn <kurt at k-huhn.com> wrote:

My IDE experience on x86 hardware has been that putting two devices on a channel is significantly slower, and I just don't do it anymore.  It didn't matter if they were CDs or Hard Disk drives.  I don't know whether the OS makes a difference or not, and whether or not the IDE chipset matters, and this is all subjective, but before I got rid of extra stuff I couldn't burn a CD at 12X, after I always could at 16X, and 12X is pretty slow when looking at HD speeds.

Tim

<SNIP>
> 
> If you mean simply adding a second disk, then I can't imagine the
> performance hit would be too great - no matter what channel the drive
> goes onto.  Since you're not doing RAID over IDE, you'll typically only
> access one drive at a time for large data transfers.  It seems to me,
> and I could be wrong, that performance should *increase* with the
> addition of more spindles - I can't imagine it would *decrease*.  That
> sounds like broken technology to me...
> 
> -- 
> Kurt
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