This one time, at band camp, Rob Weir said: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 12:42:13PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:33:36 +1000 Rob Weir <rweir@softhome.net> > > wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 08:22:01PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > > > > Uhmmm no. Normally, 2 devices per controller, no problems. > > > > > > Not if they need to work at the same time, as is the case here. > > > > Again, not true... not true at all. Two devices can work together > > flawlessly on an IDE chain. If you're having problems getting them > > to work, you've misconfigured something. > > Really? I've always heard that you can only transfer data on one > channel at a time, and thus burning while reading on a single channel > is not possible. Is this not true? IDE controllers have 2 channels, master and slave. They do each work at the same time, but they share bandwidth. You _can_ burn on-the-fly, but I would recommend a pretty low speed if you do, because there is a bottleneck at the controller. This is also true to some extent of SCSI, but the bandwidth and the bottleneck threshhold are much higher usually. HTH, Steve -- Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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