17 Apr
2004
17 Apr
'04
09:21
On Saturday 17 April 2004 11:05, Basil Chupin wrote:
I would recommend connecting the drive to /dev/hdb rather then mix a cdrw drive and a hard drive on the same ide controller. You'll have far fewer problems I/O that way.
Could you please spell out what sort of "far fewer prblems" will be avoided by doing this?
No idea which problems OP was refering to, but I have had a lot of CD-ROMs misbehaving when put on a cable with a hard drive, and also a lot (like the AOpen 56x of about a year ago) don't like being on an ATA66/100/133 cable at all. Since and IDE bus can't access two drives simultaneously in any way, I don't think you'll easily max an ATA133 controller with two drives on, even if they are the 7200rpm variety. Hans