Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Monday 2004-04-19 at 01:52 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>
> > The way I interpret a few technical papers I've read is that because of
> > the technical characteristics of IDE it is not possible to read and
> > write simultaneously on the same IDE cable/port. Putting 2 HDs on the
> > same cable therefore gains absolutely nothing if one is transferring
> > data between them - which is why I put my HDs as masters on the 2 IDE
> > ports with the CDROMs/DVDRWs/CDRWs as slaves.
>
>
> If you do speed tests on them using hdparm you will probably see they are
> quite slower that way - unless you are lucky. Experimenting is definite,
> theory is not.
>
> About your first question:
>
> /usr/share/doc/howto/en/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz

Thanks, Carlos, I will go and read this. And read up on how to use hdparm.

Cheers.



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