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

david (sector2@ihug.co.nz)
Tue, 04 Jan 2000 18:05:45 +0000


Juan Piernas Cánovas wrote:

> Hi All!
>
> 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?.

i have found that on my p1 that is ture (no speed up from raid)
but on my p2 using the same ide chip 82371AB (PIIX4) ( 200% from raid)
it can do simultaneous ios
this i would like to fix as my p1 is my server

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