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Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 20:19:50 -0500
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Two hdds on one channel - why so slow?
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On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:52:02PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I was trying to figure out what certain peoples issue with this was,
> and the answer I got back was concern about buggy hardware (both host
> side and target side) breaking the documented model.  I am personally
> in no position to evaluate the veracity of that claim; perhaps you
> could comment on how to deal with broken hardware in your model.

And how can we tell if a previous implementation was buggy or if it was 
actually hardware that was buggy?

		-ben
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