hi ya marcus
the system will work at ata33 speed...if you can run at ata66...
it will run there... if you have the ata100 patches it will try to run
faster... supposedly..but it will at least run ata33 as a minimum
( kinda like the modem handshaking...anybody speaking ata100 out there )
even if eveythng is tweeked... i bet you can't sustain 33Mbyte/sec
transfer speeds....across the disks...
- all those ata/xx is just a "claim" ???
- similarly with scsi-scsi2-scsi3-uwscsi3-scsi160-etc
lots of testing to tweek and optimized for your hw...by the time
you're satisfied...it'd be time to upgrade again...
and yes...keep slower devices on separate cables/channels..
c ya
alvin
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Marcus Marinelli wrote:
Alvin,
Well, my reason for using the onboard hpt controller is mainly that I
want both of those HDD's on a seperate cable. I am used to 10k rpm scsi
drives (spoiled), but need something quieter for where this computer is.
I do not want to put these drives on the same channel as a DVD-rom,
cd-burner, or anything like that.
So by patching, you are suggesting that I already have a working linux
distrib to patch the kernel. how do I get that far without already
having the drives working?