RAID controller question...

[Bill Broadley]

On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 10:12:42PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> 
> Up to a point. You don't increase your perfromance when you have more than
> one ide disk per channel. since only one can have the bus at a time and
> the controler can't have more than one operation pending a time. scsi
> controllers can regularly have as many as 24 pending read write operations
> per channel.

Right, but you can only have one pending (usefully) per scsi device.
And additional EIDE controllers are cheap.