On Friday 09 April 2004 19:08, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2004-04-09 at 17:59 -0000, terry_eck@comcast.net wrote:
Does it make any difference in performance if the HD is Master or Slave. Would I get better performance from the 40G HD if it were mounted as Master on the Second IDE?
It shouldn't. However, in my case, if I connect the HD and the CDrom on the same cable, the HD is slower, it drops to udma2 instead of udma5 (because the cdrom only suports udma2, I think).
So, you should try diferent setups - you can boot the rescue system from the CD in each case - and check what hdparm -i /dev/hd? says.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Also ...... tak einto consideration the filesystem that will be mounted on the appropriate hard drives. Be sure to put the most accessed directories/partitions at the beginning of the drives. HTH.