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-----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-----