From: "Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com>
To: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
yellowdog-devel@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: question on best way to install other ide drives?
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:16:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p05101401b895b9cbee49@[10.0.0.42]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <453D45A8-2339-11D6-B84B-0003938E434C@ivey.uwo.ca>
At 6:59 PM -0500 2/16/02, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My dual 1 Gig machine has room to easily mount a second (slave) ide
>drive. I also have an Sonnet ATA-100 pci card and another IDE drive.
>
>I would like to add both. The Sonnet card can support up to 4 IDE
>drives.
>
>Would it be better (performancewize) to:
>
>A. Hook both drives up the the ATA-100 pci card using two ribbon cables
>with both being masters?
(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.
--
Tim Seufert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-17 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-13 1:08 new G4 dual 1 gig is here - how to install? Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-13 1:20 ` Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler
2002-02-13 1:55 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-13 8:00 ` Olaf Hering
2002-02-13 13:49 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-14 2:29 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-14 3:53 ` Ani Joshi
2002-02-15 11:08 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 9:30 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 14:44 ` SMP kernel configuration question? Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 19:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-16 15:39 ` SMP kernel seems to work fine Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 19:24 ` new G4 dual 1 gig is here - how to install? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-14 13:53 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-14 18:08 ` benh
2002-02-14 19:31 ` Christopher C. Chimelis
2002-02-13 2:25 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-13 5:37 ` Olaf Hering
2002-02-16 2:24 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 19:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-17 18:22 ` radeonfb.c flakiness Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-17 21:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-18 20:55 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-19 0:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-16 23:59 ` question on best way to install other ide drives? Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-17 0:11 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-17 20:16 ` Timothy A. Seufert [this message]
2002-02-17 20:38 ` question: "disabling IRQ 54 defensively?" Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-17 21:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-18 2:17 ` Final question: best wasy to move /, /usr, /home, etc? Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-18 2:36 ` Bastien Nocera
2002-02-18 16:16 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-18 16:20 ` Bastien Nocera
2002-02-18 3:12 ` Jeramy B. Smith
2002-02-18 8:42 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-02-18 14:52 ` Derrik Pates
2002-02-18 15:05 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-02-18 23:18 ` Michael Heironimus
2002-02-18 17:31 ` David A. Gatwood
2002-02-17 21:52 ` question on best way to install other ide drives? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-17 23:19 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-16 2:40 ` Weird bug problems with timing of NIC driver loading? Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 19:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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