On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:33:19PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:42:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > IDE causes a bit of a performance hit, I don't think we're talking high > > speed file access here though... cheap is the objective. > > You'd be suprised at the performance hit. I had 2 drives/channel and > suffered from really bad performance with the on-board Ultra66 controller. I > installed a PCI controller (Promise Ultra 66) and put every drive on its own > channel. Things are much happier now and about 3x faster. The best part is > that the card only costs about $25.
Yep, but the problem there is figuring out how to get each channel on a unique IRQ. With some BIOSes, it's just not possible. -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -/- <- -> -/- "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - HHGTTG by DNA -\- <- |--|--------|--------------|----|-------------|------|---------|-----|-| Version 11.423.999.220020101.23.50110101.042 (c)1996-2000, All rights reserved. Disclaimer available upon request.
