Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932224AbWHXO4A (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:56:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932243AbWHXO4A (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:56:00 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:17866 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932224AbWHXOz7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:55:59 -0400 Message-ID: <44EDBDFD.6030908@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:55:57 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Kropelin Cc: Alan Cox , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Linux RAID Mailing List , marc@perkel.com Subject: Re: Linux: Why software RAID? References: <20060824090741.J30362@mail.kroptech.com> <1156425650.3007.140.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060824093616.K30362@mail.kroptech.com> In-Reply-To: <20060824093616.K30362@mail.kroptech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 19 Adam Kropelin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:20:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> Generally speaking the channels on onboard ATA are independant with any >> vaguely modern card. > > Ahh, I did not know that. Does this apply to master/slave connections on > the same PATA cable as well? No, it doesn't. Except for cards which use special cables, such as the Pacific Digital ADMA cards (which can even run both master and slave simultaneously on a cable, though not with the current Linux drivers). Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/