Halc wrote:It would be impossible to read and write at 16x on the same ide/cable.
The slave/master synchronisation and shared load does not allow that.
I've tried.
Me too.. with 48x CD-RW drives back in the day. It couldn't keep the drives' buffers filled because it could not pass data to both at the same time.
That is, a tower that would allow me to put 5,25" PATA drives to a firewire tower case and plug the tower to my computer using single firewire cable (I only need to use 1 or 2 drives at the same time from the tower).
Anybody know such towers?
What if you used internal IDE to FireWire adapters? Depending on the number drives in the tower, you could do 1 or 2 FireWire chains and then run them out to your computer. This way you could write to one, two, or all at the same time. Of course, the software would need to support multiple recorders.