but i've never understood _why_. if you read the docs from, say, SGI,
they recommend not putting more than 4 drives on a chain as they will have
completely saturated the bandwidth. if your devices aren't high-enough
bandwidth to saturate the bus, then why not put them on a cheaper bus
with more controllers (like, er, IDE).
ok, you might argue that you only have N slots in your machine --
there are some pretty nice quad-tulip cards available, i don't see why
people shouldn't make quad-IDE controllers (2 busses per controller =>
16 devices.)
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