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To: PMS Witch who wrote (17065)3/1/2001 3:28:04 PM
From: mr.mark  Respond to of 110626
 
pw

"I don't have a clue about what it's all about, but thought I'd throw it into my post: Give it some weight and make me sound informed. (It works for others.)"

before you know it, i'm going to have to come up with a best of pw post....

and the above disclosure, along with the previous gem ("My motivation was more to reduce my curiosity than to recapture the six seconds per decade of computing time being wasted"), will be right near the top

:)

mark



To: PMS Witch who wrote (17065)3/1/2001 3:32:01 PM
From: Ed Forrest  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110626
 
If your disk controller has two places to connect a cable, and I was a gambling person, I'd bet that you'd get better performance with two cables, one to each disk, than one cable going to both disks.

PW

I think that would be akin to using a splitter on an incoming TV signal.

Ed


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