Re: IDE Disk speed enhancements

David A Willmore (willmore@cig.mot.com)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 18:28:00 -0500


On Apr 24, 8:26am, Marty Leisner wrote:
> So it would make sense to configure two disks as /dev/hda and
> /dev/hdc, instead of
> /dev/hda and /dev/hdb?
>
> I've never seen this written anywhere...

I have tried this recently, but with my qd6580 VLB IDE interface, this seems to
make no difference. I have the append "ide0=qd6580" in my lilo config and the
kernel parses it correctly. Does this interface serialize and I don't know
about it?

Cheers,
David