[mdlug] Reordeing IDE drives in a system

[Dan Pritts]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:54:39AM -0400, Paul wrote:
> 	This later option solves the problem of re-ordered drives,
> but with PATA drives you will need to make sure that they are
> jumpered properly so they are all detected and dont step on each
> other. Also, because two drives on the same controler channel
> will have performance problems when doing a lot of I/O between
> each other, ordering of PATA drives is usually a worthwhile
> strategic endeavor. For example, having your main drive on hda
> and your burner on hdb could cause problems during burning.

not just between each other, but whenever both of them are in
use.  Ideally, you just wouldn't use the slave, period, but
if you hardly ever use the cdrom what the heck.

On a related note, has anyone played with SATA port multipliers?

danno
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