[mdlug] Reordeing IDE drives in a system

[Dan Pritts]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:10:47PM -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This is why I still like SCSI better than ATA (PATA and SATA)
> 
> ATA drives tie up the bus (ribbon cable) while the device is
> doing the (mechanical) seek operation (head movement to the
> correct track, and waiting until the sector comes around and

So, how does this make you not like SATA?  under most circumstances
each disk gets its own cable.

If you use a port multiplier, there are two varieties but the better
one works like you would like.  At least, so I have read.

danno
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