On Mar 3, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Chris Gilbert wrote:

> Looking at the above, both disks on the same PATA channel?  (master 
> and slave)  I believe that there's some overhead in swapping between 
> the master and slave, but I'd be surprised if it was that much.

It's not the overhead so much as "both disks cannot be active at the 
same time".  There is no parallelism in this case.

> Have you tried having each disk on it's own PATA channel?

That would certainly be what I would recommend.

-- thorpej