[plug] ide positions

[James Elliott]

I would also be interested in other members comments on what cables (EIDE1
and EIDE2) each device should be on.

I am sure I read somewhere that if you want to copy from your CD-ROM to the
CD-RW (burner) then the two CD drives should not be on the same cable, which
sounds logical to me because the CD-RW would have to pause to allow the
CD-ROM to dump the next lot of information.

But then a PLUG member suggested I put both my hard disks on the same cable.

At the moment I have2x HDD's (both 20 Gb) - one is for Windows 98 and the
other is for Linux (Red Hat 7.1) and the boot loader is Lilo.  I have one
HDD and one CD-drive on each cable:

EIDE1:   hda1 (Win98)  +  CD-RW
EIDE2:   hdc1-5 (Linux) +  CD-ROM

I rarely copy CD's, so what would you suggest - both CD's on one ribbon
cable and both HDD's on the other, or leave it the way it is?

Kind regards,


James Elliott
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Knight" <anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] ide positions


> Cheers mate!
>
> I've got that setup atm, but it does have a few quirks, due to the delay
> caused by accessing the cd burner or the dvd-rom drive. I didn't have hte
> problems before, and I notice ni the xconsole (a SuSE thing that says
system
> info, very handy), I get Bad CRC check messages, which I never had before
> when the two cd-rom drives were on the same, secondary channel. Has anyone
> else got any thoughts to throw into this, or is it a case of problem
> solvered, I should stick with my current setup?
>
> >
> >On Wednesday 05 June 2002 10:18 am, John Knight wrote:
> > > Hey up!
> > >
> > > I'd better ask this while I still remember. I've got two hdds and two
> > > cd-rom drives (one's a dvd rom drive, the other's a cd burner), what's
> >the
> > > best way to put everything on, position wise? Should I have two hdds
on
> >one
> > > channel and two cd-rom drives on the other, or have a cd-rom drive and
a
> > > hdd on each channel?
> >
> >Personally, Id put 1 HD and DVD on primary, and other HD and CDR on
> >secondary
> >
> >It will help with performance a bit having the HDs on different channels,
> >and
> >copying disk to disk as well.
> >
> >Having the DVD on primary just makes more sense to me, since it will be
> >your
> >primary reader... egads :)
> >
> >Have fun
>
>
>
> Make lunch, not war.
>
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