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On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:47:50 +1000
Basil Chupin
I have:
hda - hard drive (/) hdb - hard drive (/home and swap) hdc - CDRW hdd - DVD+RW
and it all runs fine. Having swap on hdc or hdd might improve performance marginally, but no so as you'd notice most likely.
Dylan
In your scenario, it sounds like /etc/fstab is the only change + redo the>k3b setup (re-detect) after coming back up I presume?
Paul.
I quote from a Linux reference book I have:
QUOTE
If you have two IDE drives in use under Linux, place them on separate controllers if possible. It is a limitation of the IDE/ATAPI protocol that simultaneous read/writes cannot be done to two different drives on the same controller.
UNQUOTE
Following this, I have-
Primary Master 80Gb HD (hda) Secondary Slave DVD (hdb) Secondary Master 80Gb HD (hdc) Secondary Slave CDRW (hdd)
(The speed of read/writes is dependent on the DMA of the Master on the
connector so one always puts the bit of h/ware with the fastest DMA as
Master. (Now, if you are using Cable Select on your drives then this means that the Master goes on the end of the cable (usually coloured black) while the slave goes on the middle, grey, connector [the blue one goes into the mobo]; however, if you are using jumpers to specify whether a drive is master or slave then you it doesn't matter where on
the cable you put the Master.))
On the SM I have a partition formatted in reiserfs which I use for keeping backups of files used by the OS (and applications, eg Mozilla)
which is installed on PM.
Basil and Dylan, Thanks for the valuable guidance. I have been thinking of adding a 2nd hard drive so I will think it all through carefully and document my plans before I open the machine. Sorry about the earlier quoting mistake - it was late and I didn't pay close enough attention. Paul.