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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: How many disks per SATA-II bus?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:15:24 -0500
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Bruce Miller wrote:
> The beginning of Section 4 of the Linux Sotfware-RAID-HOWTO
> states emphatically that "you should only have one device per
> IDE bus. Running disks as master/slave is horrible for
> performance. IDE is really bad at accessing more that one drive
> per bus".
> 
> Do the same cautions apply to building a RAID array using
> SATA-II disks?

SATA is a point-to-point serial connection, totally different technology.

	Jeff