On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:07:09PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > so random I/O does somewhat better.
> > 
> > It's a poor idea to put 2 disks on one channel because of performances
> ??? even with ultra/66 which (i heard) supports command overlapping?

It's much older than ultra/66 but NetBSD doesn't support it yet.
I'm not sure the gain will be that high, given the overload of
disconnect/reselect on IDE. With an intelligent controller, maybe ...

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