Mike Bilow wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 MB> Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 RJT> Not talking about duplexing here (whatever that is),  but this 
 RJT> seems to have some bearing on an issue that popped up recently 
 RJT> elsewhere.  I currently have two IDE drives sitting on the 
 RJT> first channel,  and a cdrom set up as master on the second 
 RJT> channel that's in this machine.  It's been suggested to me that 
 RJT> I might switch the second HD to the secondary channel and put 
 RJT> the cdrom on the first,  as a slave drive. What you're saying 
 RJT> here seems to suggest that I'd get a performance boost by doing 
 RJT> so.  Am I reading this right?
 MB> There would be a performance boost if you access both hard 
 MB> drives often, and the accesses are often interlaced.  Other 
 MB> than that, the performance effect would be minimal.  On a 
 MB> server, however, exactly the kind of interlaced access that 
 MB> would kill performance is what you would expect.
I expect that unpacking and tossing mail here,  which is about the most 
disk-intensive activity the system gets into,  would be a perfect example of 
this...
I'll have to give it a try at some point,  once I get past some of this other 
stuff I'm trying to deal with.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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