>Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 07:52:57 -0800
>From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>

>Kinda defeats the whole purpose of ccd since IDE doesn't allow for
>simultaneous transactions on independent drives.

Not it they are on separate controllers (e.g. wd0 at wdc0, wd1 at
wdc1).

In fact, IDE controllers have become so dirt-cheap that anyone with
two IDE drives may want to look into putting the second drive on its
own controller.  The speed increase should more than make up for the
loss of one free IRQ.  YMMV, though.
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