Re: Two RAID 0 questions

[James Drabb]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 18:35, Jeff Vian wrote:
> Statement 2 is not.   With IDE busses, all devices on the bus operate at 
> the speed of the slowest device.  Thus if you put an ATA133 drive on a 
> bus with an ATA33 cdrom, the entire bus only operates at ATA33.   They 
> are improving this, and AFAICT the new SATA controllers do not have this 
> limitation.

That is not the case anymore.  The IDE bus will change the speed
depending on what device is currently being accessed.  I have a CD-ROM
and an ATA/100 HDD on the secondary controller and the HDD has no slow
down at all.

Jim Drabb