[iyonix-support] Re: Connections for 4 IDE drives

  • From: Neil Spellings <lists2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:52:57 +0100

Ron wrote:

> After reading the large PDF's for the ALI HD controller a while ago I
> noticed that it is capable of writing to IDE 1 and 2 simultaneously. It
> left me wondering if this feature is implemented on the Iyonix and would
> there be any circumstances that could benefit, such as CD writing or
> Backups.

ADFS doesn't support this, as it contains several "I'm using the IDE
bus" locks which are across both IDE channels and not per-channel, so
you can't transfer data on both channels simultaneously.

Cheers,


Neil
www.purleyhosting.com
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