Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> On 04/17/2004 10:39 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
> > All I want you to do is to answer my question which is what problems 
> > are to be avoided by not putting a CDROM, or similar, on the same 
> > cable as a HD.
> Since most CDROMs are not as fast as a HD, it will slow down the bus 
> speed for both. Therefore it is suggested to put HD with other fast HD 
> on the same bus, a slower HD on the sec. controller with the slower 
> CDROM. This allows all to work at max speed. HTH.

The way I interpret a few technical papers I've read is that because of 
the technical characteristics of IDE it is not possible to read and 
write simultaneously on the same IDE cable/port. Putting 2 HDs on the 
same cable therefore gains absolutely nothing if one is transferring 
data between them - which is why I put my HDs as masters on the 2 IDE 
ports with the CDROMs/DVDRWs/CDRWs as slaves.

Cheers.


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