[iyonix-support] Re: Connections for 4 IDE drives
- From: "David J. Ruck" <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:39:26 +0100
On 3 Apr 2007 Neil Spellings <lists2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Implementing UDMA rather than PIO for non disc devices such as CD/DVD Writers
is a far more important step, and would enable much greater read and write
speeds to be used.
Cheers
---Dave
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