El Jue 21 Oct 2004 18:32, Robert Epprecht escribió:
  Hmm, so maybe it would be less work to try both
setups:
 1) both hds as masters, optical drives as slaves.
 2) hds on one channel, dvds on the other one.
 The problem is that i do not really know how to test performance... 
To test IDE performance use hdparm.
hdparm -tT /dev/hda
It can occasionally cause unexpected data corruption but it's very usefull.
Have a look at:
http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html
MartÃn.