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SubjectRe: IDE Disk speed enhancements
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


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