Subject: Re: ccd on ide drives
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
From: Jason Downs <downsj@teeny.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/08/1996 15:47:23
In message <199601081553.HAA04170@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>,
	"Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" writes:
>
>>I am going to configure the system to support ccd on ide drives. I would
>>like to know if the ccd supports ide drives and the procedures to do so.
>>Can anyone share the experience with me. Thanks.
>
>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).

And just *how* does that `defeat the whole purpose' of a *concatenated*
disk?

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