On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:

> unfortunately no. the ware some posts about performance problems with many
> IDE disks even on separate controllers. it's because IDE chip saturates
> completely PCI bus when transferring data so making CPU stalls when it
> tries to send command to another IDE chip

 If the IDE device is saturating the PCI bus transferring 33megs/second of
data woulden't you think a SCSI controller transferring 33megs/second of
data would do that as well?

 And as an aside, lots of newer IDE controllers don't rely on the CPU
nearley as much as old implimentations did.