Yes, they (physical disks) *must* be on different ide cables (interfaces) and no atapi or other devices. But if you have set it up properly as raid0, this will already be the case. It would be nice to put swap on a couple of separate, small but very very fast hard drives - but I have not heard of anything suitable, and then there is cost to consider. Comes down to best bang for buck ...
BillK On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 07:10, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Nov 5, 2003, at 3:48 PM, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > > > This depends and correct me if I am wrong, when you use scsi, you can > > get this benefit of using two different hard drives and getting a > > performance benefit. The last I remembered, if your using ide, this is > > not the case unless you have them on two different ide cards.. Even > > though an ide card can handle two hard drives, it can only read from > > them one at a time hence the performance wouldn't be there... > > I believe that is only true if they are on the same cable. Each > interface has its own master/slave pair which I believe are > independent. Most systems have at least two IDE buses (connectors) and > many now have 4 or more :-) > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
