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<br><font size=2><tt>Some IDE subsystems are known to hold<br>
interupts too long and they interfere with the need for Zap devices to<br>
be services 1000 times per second. If you don't service the zap devices<br>
on time and without misses you will have degraded voice quality and<br>
possibly, if on PRI, you could screw up a call setup or tear down.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Ouch! Thanks for pointing this out. Fortunately on
this system it is pure VoIP no Zap cards. However, would the use of SATA
drives anyways help to alleviate this problem? The controller is on-board,
but it is a dedicated controller. The CPU still has to do the RAID-1 however
with this approach.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>-Ron</tt></font>
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