Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2004-04-19 at 01:52 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
The way I interpret a few technical papers I've read is that because of the technical characteristics of IDE it is not possible to read and write simultaneously on the same IDE cable/port. Putting 2 HDs on the same cable therefore gains absolutely nothing if one is transferring data between them - which is why I put my HDs as masters on the 2 IDE ports with the CDROMs/DVDRWs/CDRWs as slaves.
If you do speed tests on them using hdparm you will probably see they are quite slower that way - unless you are lucky. Experimenting is definite, theory is not.
About your first question:
/usr/share/doc/howto/en/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz
Thanks, Carlos, I will go and read this. And read up on how to use hdparm. Cheers. -- I am not young enough to know everything.