Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 18:21:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cloning a hard drive - performance issues Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108021817160.24691-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <20010802195017.A503@northernbrewer.com>
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On 2001-08-02, Christopher Farley scribbled: # Which is faster: # # a) Leave both drives on the same cable, set one as master and the other # as slave # b) Put each drive on its own cable, set them both as master # c) No difference # d) Depends on your mainboard More like depends on the other device sitting on the cable. If you are planning to have a lot of disk activity on both drives at once, then place them on separate channels (and cables). Older CD-ROM drives, Zip drives and tape drives will bog down the channel, so be careful if you decide to place each drive on separate channels. IDE only allows one device to speak on the bus at once (be it a hard drive, CD-ROM, etc.)... so if you have two drives on one cable and you want to copy the data from one to the other, it will take a little longer than if you had the drives on each channel. -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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