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.

-s