Re: IDE hotplug support?

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Fri, 3 May 2002 02:37:55 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > The request aliasing effects will be almost for sure disasterous
> > > to overall system performance.
> >
> > hm. all I want is lots of space. I don't need speed here. What is
> > 'disasterous' here?
>
> Halve the expected throughput and subtract a bit. Since you can put 8
> ports on a 3ware card one drive per port at 160Gb a drive I suspect you
> don't need master/slave pairs 8)
>
I do. I can't afford 3ware

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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester

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