Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 RJT> Not talking about duplexing here (whatever that is),  but
 RJT> this seems to have some bearing on an issue that popped up
 RJT> recently elsewhere.  I currently have two IDE drives sitting
 RJT> on the first channel,  and a cdrom set up as master on the
 RJT> second channel that's in this machine.  It's been suggested
 RJT> to me that I might switch the second HD to the secondary
 RJT> channel and put the cdrom on the first,  as a slave drive. 
 RJT> What you're saying here seems to suggest that I'd get a
 RJT> performance boost by doing so.  Am I reading this right?
There would be a performance boost if you access both hard drives often, and 
the accesses are often interlaced.  Other than that, the performance effect 
would be minimal.  On a server, however, exactly the kind of interlaced 
access that would kill performance is what you would expect.
 
-- Mike
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