In message <20020522193143.GA607@antioche.eu.org>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:28:18AM -0700, Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:
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>IDE doesn't do disconnect/reselect, so when you have 2 concurent one drive
>is idle while the other one is working. So in your test it's expected
>to have the per-drive transfer rate drop by half.
>I'm not sure why it's more than half. Maybe the extra delay between 2 transfer
>s
>prevents the drive from doing some kind of "streaming" ?
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Rotational delay after the first transfer ends?

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