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    SubjectRe: Two hdds on one channel - why so slow?
    This is an inherent quirk (SCSI folks would say brain damage) in IDE.

    Only one drive on an IDE chain may be accessed at once and only one
    request may go to that drive at a time. Therefore, the maximum you could
    hope for in that test is half speed on each. Throw in the overhead of
    continuously hopping between them and 12MB is no surprise.

    That is why even cheapo Compaqs and Gateways have the hard drive and
    CD-ROM on separate chains. It's also why IDE RAID cards have a separate
    connector for each drive.

    -- Brian

    On Tuesday 01 January 2002 05:34 pm, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > There is something wrong with ide data throughput with at last both via
    > kt133 and promise pcd20265 controllers.
    >
    > I have Asus A7V-133 Mobo with VIA KT133A chipset and onboard Promise
    > pcd20265 ide controller. My CPU is Athlon 1400 MHz and I have 512 MB of
    > PC133 SDRAM. I noticed that connecting two ata100 hdds into the same
    > channel makes everything much slower. So I made some test:
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