Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 May 2002 02:25:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <> | Subject | Re: IDE hotplug support? |
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> 15 drives == 16 interfaces == 8 channels == 4 controllers > with primary and secondary channel. > > He will have groups of about 4 drives on each channel wich > serialize each other due to excessive IRQ line sharing and > master slave issues. > > 8 x 130MBy/s >>>> PCI bus throughput... I would rather recommend > a classical RAID controller card for this kind of > setup. > > The request aliasing effects will be almost for sure disasterous > to overall system performance.
hm. all I want is lots of space. I don't need speed here. What is 'disasterous' here? -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester
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