Re: IO performance problems in 2.4.19-pre5 when writing to DVD-RAM/ZIP/MO

Andreas Dilger (adilger@clusterfs.com)
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:34:53 -0600


On Apr 17, 2002 17:26 +0200, Moritz Franosch wrote:
> In cases 9 and 12 where performance is bad, both tested drives are on
> the same IDE controller. Should that matter?

Yes, very much. IDE is broken in this regard - you can only do I/O
to one device on the IDE channel at the same time. Either you need
to get additional IDE controllers (about $35 or so) or you split your
devices so that they are on separate IDE channels (i.e. DVD and ZIP
together, HD on the other channel if copying HD <-> DVD and HD <-> ZIP).
Of course with 2 HDs, you should probably keep them on separate channels
also.

Cheers, Andreas

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