On Sun, 19 May 2002, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Ian C. Sison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > ...faster access (UDMA 133).... > > A mirage and an irrelevancy. That's the theoretical maximum transfer > rate of the bus, which can never be approached even in ideal cases, > because data flow is limited to the physical read speed of hard drives,
An issue which is just as relevant on SCSI based solutions > and ATA cannot draw data from more than one drive at a time on an ATA > channel. I hear of some contrived test situations where it's starting > to be possible to saturate ATA/66, but just barely. Most Hardware IDE RAID controllers recommend one disk per ATA channel anyway, so it's a non-issue. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
