If I remember correctly, the setting of the drive maybe in 33/66 mode rather than 100. Use the utility you go with the drive to set it up as 100, the problem maybe your controller is a 66 rather than a 100. You maybe in the market for a new controller. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Edward Dekkers > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 8:27 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Is Secondary IDE always slower than primary? > > Harry Hoffman wrote: > > > Hmm, > > > > In the IDE setting wouldn't the "secondary" IDE drive be slower if the > "primary" > > IDE drive is transmitting/receiving data. As far as I can find/remember > that > > would be the foremost issue. > > > > HTH, > > Harry > > > > Harry - on paper they're actually two discreet channels, so one > shouldn't affect the other. > > But in reality - you're absolutely right. I don't think it's an > architectural limit, I just think the way data is retrieved causes a > slow-down when grabbing two sets of data out of two hard drives. > > If it wasn't a problem, then striping RAID should double throughput, but > in reality we don't see a 100% increase in speed. > > Regards, > Ed. > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
