[plug] ide positions

[James Elliott]

Harry

Would a slow CD-drive affect HDD performance if the CD-drive was not being
used - didn't even have a dick in it?

James

James Elliott
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry McNally" <harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] ide positions


> On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:51:41 +0800 "John Knight"
<anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Weeeell .. depending on your HDD performance, if the drives are both
ATA100
> would it be better to put them on the primary channel with one of those
cool
> looking IDE cables with fine pitch ribbon cable ? Sorry  .. terminology
escapes
> me.
>
> I thought (and I might have more than a few wires crossed here) that the
slower
> CD IDE devices will limit the performance of the IDE channel. By putting
both CD
> drives on the second IDE controller you are putting slow with slow and
fast with
> fast.
>
> Considering latency and write speed issues for the hard drives are limits
of the
> spindles and not the 100ATA IDE cable, having the HDD's sharing the same
IDE
> probably won't affect their performance.
>
> If the CDs can't share a slow IDE cable (as Richard has said) then this
> organisation is not possible.
>
> These are thoughts only. Reality may differ. Can anyone enlighten me on
IDE
> performance, cool cables and 100ATA, 133ATA etc etc ?
>
> cu
> Harry
>
>
>