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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:15:14 -0800
From:      Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>
To:        Steve Warwick <ukla@attbi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2 drives + 2 IDE channels = better? 
Message-ID:  <200210292315.g9TNFE1J016535@axp.csl.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Steve Warwick <ukla@attbi.com>  of "Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:05:38 PST." <B9E45442.3AF6%ukla@attbi.com> 

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> 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?)

Yes I would recommend this, but I would also recommend not having a CD
drive on the same bus as a heavily used disk (unless the CD is rarely
used).

I would also recommend putting /usr/src and /usr/obj on different disks to
speed up makeworld (if that is important to you).

 - Mike



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