On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 05:29:38PM -0200, Fernando Lozano wrote:
> I heard that many IDE controllers cannot set different PIO and DMA modes
> for the master and the slave, so you get the lowest level both devices
> (the HD and the CD-ROM) can support.
That would certainly cause degradation even if not using the CDROM. However,
it isn't inherent in the IDE definition--it's a per-controller issue.
> Besides, IDE controllers serialize requests so you cannot read from the
> HD while you wait from data to came from the CD-ROM. That's different
> from SCSI ...
Certainly; that's what we've been talking about.
Cheers,
--
Dave Ihnat
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