[SunHELP] Second IDE Drive on Solaris x86

[Gregory Leblanc]

> We have a MX and DNS server set-up on a PIII 700 MHz, with a 9GB IDE HD. We 
> are looking at adding a second HD and using it to hold the mail spool. 
> However, since this is all on the same IDE controller, will it increase 
> perfomrance, or decrease?
> 
> I am not up on the performance associted with IDE, and have heard that a 
> slave IDE device may be slower. Any thoughts?


Adding a second drive to a channel on IDE isn't generally a good
idea.  As long as you never use both disks at the same time, it
shouldn't hurt performance, but it certainly won't help anything.  Hmm,
anybody know what PCI IDE controllers Solaris x86 supports? 

    Greg