> 
> 	what a problem to plug 20 IDE disks on  5 4-channel controllers? :)
> 
> Don't laugh.  I did it and we have a machine with a butt load of space.  
> We used Promise Ultra/100 cards and we have 17 disks on 5 4-channel ide
> controllers.
> Oh, yes, my tests show we get on average 20Mbytes/second of throughput on
> reads.  this is pretty good considering we're running the disks at UDma
> mode(1)
20MB total or per disk?