Help Diagnose Slow Disc Access

[Mikkel]

On 02/12/2010 05:40 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> You also want to avoid two disks on one cable as the IDE interface only
> allows one of them to be active at a time so its a good way to cripple
> performance.
> 
Dumb question - what happens if you have a slow interface on the
CD/DVD drive? Does the driver change access modes depending on if it
is talking to the master or slave, or does it pick the lowest common
denominator? I seam to remember that being a problem at one time,
but things have changed a lot sense then...

Mikkel
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