Ah yes, thank you Gilbert, you're right, the first two onboard IDE
controllers on the 600SC do support ATA/100. So, now my question is,
is attaching two high performance IDE disks to the same ATA/100
controller going to significantly degrade performance due to bus
contention?
The conservative approach is to attach only one drive to each port no
matter what, but I'm wondering if that's really unnecessary.
I couldn't find any definitive answers by searching on Google.
Anybody know for sure?
Unfortunately, I really don't have the time and inclination right now
to actually set up my hardware both ways (shared vs. non-shared IDE
bus) and collect some real benchmark data, so if that's the only way
to get a definitive answer I probably won't, I'll just stick in a
Promise Ultra100 TX2 two port PCI controller card.
