Subject: Re: ccd on ide drives
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 01/08/1996 13:56:31
On Mon, 08 Jan 1996 07:52:57 -0800
"Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> wrote:
> Kinda defeats the whole purpose of ccd since IDE doesn't allow for
> simultaneous transactions on independent drives. (I. e. IDE makes the
> transactions serialized, just like not using ccd.) SCSI allows each
> drive to operate independently and simultaneosly of the other
> drive(s).
Yah, that is a good point, and in the interleaved case, it's conceivable
that the access would actually be slower with IDE. However, it _would_
work, and you can always simply concatenate (interleave of 0) if you need
the extra space...
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