On Friday 09 April 2004 01:59 pm, terry_eck@comcast.net wrote:
This question is not directly related to SuSE but since I'm using SuSE 8.2 I'm hoping there are users on this list who are knowledgeable about hardware. The table below shows my present and proposed drive setup.
IDE Mast/Slave Present Proposed 1 Master 80G HD 80G HD 1 Slave 40G HD CDROM 2 Master CDROM 40G HD 2 Slave ZIP Drive Zip Drive 3 Master CDRW CDRW
My present setup has the two Hard Drives on the First IDE as Master/Slave. I currently use SuSE on the 80G HD and use the 40G HD as storage. I'm installing a second version of SuSE onto the 40G HD and will use both versions from time to time. Does it make any difference in performance if the HD is Master or Slave. Would I get better performance from the 40G HD if it were mounted as Master on the Second IDE?
Thanks, Terry ===============
Terry, Whatever you put on an IDE channel, the drives will fall back to the slowest speed drive. Therefore, if you put a fast HD on with a slow CD, all will run at the speed of the slowest drive. I don't usually like or recommend putting 2 hard drives on the same channel, but that arrangement is better than a HD & CD. Keep the hard drives together & the cdroms together, don't mix them. In fact, the Zip drive is probably slowing down your cdrom, if it is one of the faster units! Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.1 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...