by Halc on Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:49 am
rdgrimes,
I have to be more exact next time :)
It's not technically possible to write and read at the very same instant on both channel master and slave on one parallel ata channel.
As such, when using two optical on the same single parallel ata channel, your computer will have to rapidly alternate between read/write commands with each drive.
While this is probably no problem for modern drives and especially modern CPUs, there is a difference nevertheless, mainly with CPU utilisation. This can also lead to on-the-fly copy speed limitations on slower cpu systems.
As such, I would not recommend two opticals on the same parallel ata channel, if the other arrangement does not cause any problems.
I hope that was more accurate now :)
regards,
Halcyon
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Halc on Thu Sep 18, 2003 5:17 am, edited 1 time in total.