From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 19:40:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6981137B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:40:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from web40711.mail.yahoo.com (web40711.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9474543E4A for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk) Message-ID: <20021030034026.37024.qmail@web40711.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.221.10.6] by web40711.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:40:26 PST Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:40:26 -0800 (PST) From: robert Backhaus Subject: Re: 2 drives + 2 IDE channels = better? To: Steve Warwick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Steve Warwick wrote: > Hi, > > Is is better to run a 2nd drive on another IDE channel or on the same > bus? > Eg. IDE channel 1 = ad0 (main OS), IDE channel 2 = ad1 (other data - > maybe > MySQL and websites?) Yes, It is recommended, although the limiting factor is generally seek&settle times for the drives. If you are doing long sequential reads, you may see the difference. It's not as important as one might think. Several things do work nicer if the drive is a master, so it's a good idea all round __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message