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To: mr.mark who wrote (17017)2/28/2001 2:52:52 PM
From: PMS Witch  Respond to of 110626
 
Maybe this will help. I wish I could find a link that comes right out and says so clearly, but so far, I haven't.

pcguide.com


This means that if you put two devices on the same channel, they must share it. In practical terms, this means that any time one device is in use, the other must remain silent.

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Since only one of the master and slave can use any channel at a time, there are sometimes advantages to using more than one IDE/ATA channel even if not strictly necessary based on the number of devices you are trying to support.


Cheers, PW.



To: mr.mark who wrote (17017)3/1/2001 10:24:48 AM
From: tanstfl  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110626
 
Hi mark,
The advantage in two drives on one channel with the swap file on the second drive is reduced head movement. With one drive the heads would need to continously go between the data locations and the swap file locations. As a side note, SCSI drives do not have this limitation depending on how the SCSI bus parameters are set.

Steve


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