Faster swap by using separate disk?

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE
drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up
swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.

Unfortunately I think I read somewhere that when you have a Master/Slave
IDE pair, only one of the disks can be accessed at any one time, so that
having the swap partition on a separate disk doesn't help.

However my motherboard is capable of using 4 ide devices.  It has two
pairs:

	Primary Master/Primary Slave
and
	Secondary Master/Secondary Slave

What if I put linux on one of the primary disks, and the swap partition on
a secondary disk, will that mean both disks can be accessed at the same
time, hence giving a swap speedup?

Thanks,

Mark.

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