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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:15:27 -0800
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Best ATA RAID controller 
Message-ID:  <200202141915.g1EJFRc00929@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Feb 2002 06:49:41 CST." <5.1.0.14.2.20020214064813.06ba9008@mail.Go2France.com> 

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> At 01:29 2002-02-14 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Some of the other IDE raid cards will allow you to use a master and slave 
> >on the same channel. From what I understand the problem with this is that 
> >if a slave dies, it could potentially take out the master or vice versa.
> 
> and isn't an inactive second device, such as a seldom used cdrom, slowing 
> down the bus due to master/slave contention?

Not unless the controller actually talks to it.

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