> maximum real-world PCI bus throughput in the 80-100MB/sec range due to
> limited burst length, you'll see a *lot* of PCI bus contention, meaning
> that those IDE controllers are all going to spend a *lot* of time idle.
in normal operation drives are mostly seeking so even 10MB/s throughput 
per drive is'n very big. unless users will do lot of large-file transfer
> In my experience, even with one disk per channel, I never do better than
> about 50-60MB/sec with two disks; with four disks, throughput is *worse*
> than with two, though obviously there are twice as many heads available
> so random I/O does somewhat better.
> 
> Thor
>