>So it would make sense to configure two disks as /dev/hda and
>/dev/hdc, instead of
>/dev/hda and /dev/hdb?
Yes, it would.
>I've never seen this written anywhere...
Other than in mail and news (about 200 times now), neither have I.
I don't believe IBM talks about it for OS/2, either.
The same rule applies to SCSI interfaces: If you have multiple interfaces,
the best system throughput is just about always obtained when drives are
appropriately scattered over the multiple interfaces, SCSI or IDE.
But more so for IDE.
-ml