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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