On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:15:31AM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <20000615141019.B4971@pyy.jmp.fi>, Jukka Marin writes:
> >> I think you should have the buffer disk at the other IDE channel than
> >> the CD-RW drive. And "some NetBSD users" are right, in fact you really
> >> want a SCSI drive :)
> 
> >Why? :-)
> 
> Bus arbitration, or something similar.  IDE sucks for doing more than one
> thing at a time - say, for instance, reading from one disk and writing to
> another.  SCSI is very good at it.

But if you have only one IDE device per channel it's not really a problem.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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