Two RAID 0 questions

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 26.02.2004 schrieb Jeff Vian um 00:35:

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> 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.

It only slows down for the time while the CD-ROM drive is accessed! Just
connecting a slower driver to the cable will have no affect to the
driver with the faster capability.

Alexander


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