Re: IDE hotplug support?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 3 May 2002 01:51:25 +0100 (BST)


> > 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)
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