From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 15:11:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FB137B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:11:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from fed1mtao01.cox.net (fed1mtao01.cox.net [68.6.19.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE3E43E4A for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:11:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from s.wingate@cox.net) Received: from smtp.west.cox.net ([172.18.180.52]) by fed1mtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with SMTP id <20021029231124.MOQD14888.fed1mtao01.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net>; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:11:24 -0500 From: Steve Wingate To: Steve Warwick , Subject: Re: 2 drives + 2 IDE channels = better? Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:11:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20021029231124.MOQD14888.fed1mtao01.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is is better to run a 2nd drive on another IDE channel or on the same bus? > Eg. IDE channel 1 = ad0 (main OS), IDE channel 2 = ad1 (other data - maybe > MySQL and websites?) > For performance reasons a seperate channel is better. If you're anal about cable neatness, air flow and all that weird stuff a single cable does have some benefit for some people. I prefer the two channel method whether it's two hard drives or a disk and cd-rom, since an IDE disk can only do one thing at a time. Work like you don't need the money Dance like nobody's watching Love like you've never been hurt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message