Re: 8 milliseconds minimum gap between two consecutive disk I/O requests?

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Azeem Shahjahan Jiva wrote:

> +---------- Thus spoke Juan Piernas Cánovas on Mon, Jan 03, 2000
> |Also, I've drawn from the kernel source that Linux isn't able to deal
> |with two simultaneous disk requests, each on a separate disk, if both
> |disks are on the same IDE ribbon (that is, they use the same IDE bus).
> |Am I wrong?.
> 
> Hi,
>    I was under the impression that was an IDE limitation and not an OS one.
> 

IDE doesn't provide for multiple queued commands, disconnect, reconnect,
etc. If you want this, you use SCSI. IDE is like a big floppy.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.3.13 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).