Carsten,

         I don't see any benefit of using both channels for two drives... I 
was saving these for another two drives in an external box - TeraQube would 
then live up to it's name!

         The drives only use dma 33 as it is so there wouldn't really be 
any speed increase (correct me if I'm wrong)

         Ultra133/TX2 controllers would be nice, as the ultra100's seem to 
be in short supply these days - but they work...

Kind Regards,
Pete.

At 16:17 24/06/2004, Carsten Pache wrote:
>Pete,
>
>nice assembly!
>
> > Note that the PCI IDE controller card must be at least an
> > Ultra100/TX2 from Promise, anything less does not support LBA48 drives
> > through the pciide driver with NetBSD 1.6.1
>
>Do you know if the Promise Ultra133 TX2 is also supported by NetBSD 1.6.1?
>Will the higher data throughput of the Ultra133 TX2 be perceptible?
>
>Another question: The Ultra1xx TX2 has two connectors. Will the Qube benefit
>if every drive is connected to a separate connector (instead of both drives
>connected through only one IDE cable)?
>
>Regards,
>Carsten