Need help on IDE drive and CDROM connections
Dear List Members, I have a Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard which has 4 IDE interfaces. (/dev/hda thru /dev/hdh). I currently have the following IDE devices: hda: IBM-DTTA-371010 ATA DISK drive hdb: IC35L040AVER07-0 ATA Disk drive hdc: DVDROM 10X, ATAPI CE/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive On the motherboard are 4 additional interfaces for drives. I just purchased a Sony CD-R/RW (CRX220A1) which needs to be installed. I am currently running SuSE 7.3 but purchased 8.2 and will do a new install after I install the CD-R/RW drive. Now the question. What would be the best arrangement for the drives. I plan on keeping the hard drives on hda and hdb. I am thinking of putting the CD-R/RW on hdc and moving the DVDROM drive to hde. This would make the following configuration: hda / hdb (IDE0) 2 hard drives hdc / hdd (IDE1) CD-R/RW and ZIP drives hde / hdf (IDE2) CDROM-DVD and maybe an extra hard drive as slave. This would allow both CD drives to be masters. Is there a better setup considering I want to be able to burn CD's and maybe copy CD to CD. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Terry -- SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386) 2.4.16-4GB Sun May 4 15:00:00 UTC 2003 3:00pm up 128 days, 22:36, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
The 03.05.04 at 15:34, Terry Eck wrote:
hda / hdb (IDE0) 2 hard drives hdc / hdd (IDE1) CD-R/RW and ZIP drives hde / hdf (IDE2) CDROM-DVD and maybe an extra hard drive as slave.
Once I found that placing a cd or dvd on the same cable as a HD made the later not use ATA100 mode. I would check if the ZIP drive makes the CD go slower, just in case. Otherwise, I think you configuration is fine. If you have cables to spare, perhaps placing the HD on separate cables could make them go faster. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 May 2003 10:34, Terry Eck wrote:
Dear List Members, I have a Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard which has 4 IDE interfaces. (/dev/hda thru /dev/hdh). I currently have the following IDE devices: hda: IBM-DTTA-371010 ATA DISK drive hdb: IC35L040AVER07-0 ATA Disk drive hdc: DVDROM 10X, ATAPI CE/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive On the motherboard are 4 additional interfaces for drives.
I just purchased a Sony CD-R/RW (CRX220A1) which needs to be installed. I am currently running SuSE 7.3 but purchased 8.2 and will do a new install after I install the CD-R/RW drive. Now the question. What would be the best arrangement for the drives. I plan on keeping the hard drives on hda and hdb. I am thinking of putting the CD-R/RW on hdc and moving the DVDROM drive to hde. This would make the following configuration: hda / hdb (IDE0) 2 hard drives hdc / hdd (IDE1) CD-R/RW and ZIP drives hde / hdf (IDE2) CDROM-DVD and maybe an extra hard drive as slave.
This would allow both CD drives to be masters.
Is there a better setup considering I want to be able to burn CD's and maybe copy CD to CD.
Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
Thanks, Terry
I don't see anything wrong with it, just remember, if you *do* have problems, do the easiest checks first...the jumpers on the drives. I've found that putting the jumpers on all drives on the 'cable select' work best, but YMMV and you may need to do some experimenting around with them ( I have a two hdd setup one as primary master, the other primary slave, the DVD-ROM as secondary master and the CD-RW as secondary slave. I was having one heck of a time getting things to be recognized correctly just in the BIOS, then I looked...*again*, and duh...I'd forgot to put the power cord back on the DVD drive. You guys didn't hear the moan over my stupidity where you are? LOL). John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin eats butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+tpGWH5oDXyLKXKQRAhKSAJ40VpgXL58k6bxhmJT7RXHQ2E3uwgCgqObh j2ABb937eWwYdhNqr1JHh6Y= =FyXT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sun May 4 2003 10:34 am, Terry Eck wrote:
Dear List Members, I have a Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard which has 4 IDE interfaces. (/dev/hda thru /dev/hdh). I currently have the following IDE devices: hda: IBM-DTTA-371010 ATA DISK drive hdb: IC35L040AVER07-0 ATA Disk drive hdc: DVDROM 10X, ATAPI CE/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive On the motherboard are 4 additional interfaces for drives.
I just purchased a Sony CD-R/RW (CRX220A1) which needs to be installed. I am currently running SuSE 7.3 but purchased 8.2 and will do a new install after I install the CD-R/RW drive. Now the question. What would be the best arrangement for the drives. I plan on keeping the hard drives on hda and hdb. I am thinking of putting the CD-R/RW on hdc and moving the DVDROM drive to hde. This would make the following configuration: hda / hdb (IDE0) 2 hard drives hdc / hdd (IDE1) CD-R/RW and ZIP drives hde / hdf (IDE2) CDROM-DVD and maybe an extra hard drive as slave.
This would allow both CD drives to be masters.
Is there a better setup considering I want to be able to burn CD's and maybe copy CD to CD.
Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
Thanks, Terry
You have 4 IDE interfaces or 6 total? After listing the devices as they are connected now, you say you have 4 more interfaces for drives. Typo? Anyway, for best performance you should try 1 device per IDE interface. IDE doesn't perform well with multiple devices on the same cable versus SCSI. You are adding a 5th device so put it on the same cable as the least used device if those 2 devices won't be used at the same time. What I would do is something like this: hda / hdb (IDE0) 1 hard drive hdc / hdd (IDE1) 1 hard drive hde / hdf (IDE2) CD-R/RW and ZIP drives hdg / hdh (IDE3) CDROM-DVD If all these IDE controllers are the same speed (Ultra133, Ultra100, whatever) put the hard drives on the higher speed interfaces and the CD/DVD/Zip on slower interfaces. If you have more than 4 IDE interfaces, go with 1 device per interface. Stan
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Carlos E. R.
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Stan Glasoe
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Terry Eck