On -1 xxx -1, Vidiot wrote:
> I remember reading that there are issues with having two different
> speed devices on the same EIDE channel - that the speed of the
> channel is that of the slowest device. In the above case, channel 0
The speed of command transmission is the speed of the slowest device with
some older IDE drives and IDE interfaces. This is not related to the
speed of data transfer, which is entirely dependent upon the individual
device.
I have extensively benchmarked my system. With two EIDE drives being used
as a RAID0 stripe and an old slow 4x EIDE CD-ROM drive, I get best
performance when the two IDE drives are masters on separate channels with
the (slow) CD-ROM drive as slave on either of the channels. I have noticed
no appreciable difference whether the CD-ROM is plugged in or not.
> If someone knows the right answer, please let me (us) know.
Note that my answer is the "right" answer only for modern EIDE controllers
and modern EIDE devices. Old IDE devices may very well have had the
limitation that you mention.
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