Quoting Andre M. V. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Next time, mention it so others may know. Half of your e-mail is > irrelevant if you use a 3ware RAID card. :)
Not really. What he said was quite correct -- and no surprise at all to anyone paying attention to earlier posts: You can't usefully have more than one device per ATA chain, there or anywhere else. The 3Ware cards provide multiple ATA chains -- employing the somewhat dodgy technique of IRQ-sharing to avoid requiring n IRQs to service n chains. This situation is inherent in ATA. Always. It's not a _big_ problem: It just (1) means you have to be careful where you connect hard drives, and (2) is part of the reason why ATA 100, ATA 133, and so on are a sham. _ 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]
