In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Andresen writes:
>I'm hoping there is an easy answer to this one...
>
>Is there some way vinum can be tickled such that it writes to all disks
>in a plex at once?  For instance, say I have a 6 disk RAID5 array
>that I'm writing a 200MB file to.  Is there some way I can make 
>vinum attempt to write data to all of the drive simultaniously?
>
>If vinum already does that I'm probably just saturating the PCI bus
>and there's nothing more I can do, but it seems like I should have
>a tougher time saturating the bus with 5400RPM drives...

You can (over-)saturate a 32bit/33MHz pci bus with two or three
modern ATA disks.

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