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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca>,
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	"Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: question on best way to install other ide drives?
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:52:04 +0100
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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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