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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:32:15 +0200
From: Martin Sommerhein <pms2-freebsd@sommerhein.com>
To: Andrew <infofarmer@mail.ru>
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Subject: Re: SOLVED: Second harddrive as slave on ata0 (UDMA100) or as
	master on ata1(UDMA33)?
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Andrew <infofarmer@mail.ru> writes:

> Martin Sommerhein wrote:
> 
> > So the question is, what will give me the best performance, having it on
> > the second master with UDMA33 or as a slave on the first controller as
> > UDMA100?
> 
> Your hosting company seems to have used an UDMA33 IDE cable for the second
> hard drive. If they cannot find another U100 cable, then you'd better ask
> them to put both drives on one U100 cable. You'll get better performance
> this way.

Thanks a lot!  I am now awaiting an answer from them for replacing the
cable...

> > PS: Should this have been sent to freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org so please
> > tell me?
> 
> I doubt it very much that this question has anything to do with FreeBSD at
> all.

:)

> Have a nice,
> Andrew

Cheers,
Martin