On 10 Mar 2003, at 23:59, Harold Bush wrote:

> On an Utra DMA IDE Bus the bus speed will be that of the slowest device
> on the bus.

  I believe that this was one of the defects of the original IDE (one
channel, two devices) that was corrected as part of EIDE (two channels, two
devices each).  Around the same time, malers of slow devices such as CD-ROM
drives started putting fast *interfaces* on them so they wouldn't slow down
hard drives, even on old IDE controllers.

David Gillett

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