Re: IDE Disk speed enhancements

mark (mlord@bnr.ca)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:59:00 -0400


In message "Re: IDE Disk speed enhancements",
'leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com' writes:

>So it would make sense to configure two disks as /dev/hda and
>/dev/hdc, instead of
>/dev/hda and /dev/hdb?

Yes, it would.

>I've never seen this written anywhere...

Other than in mail and news (about 200 times now), neither have I.

I don't believe IBM talks about it for OS/2, either.

The same rule applies to SCSI interfaces: If you have multiple interfaces,
the best system throughput is just about always obtained when drives are
appropriately scattered over the multiple interfaces, SCSI or IDE.
But more so for IDE.

-ml