[plug] DVD ROM

[Richard Meyer]

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                      "Milan Pospisil"                                                                                                     
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                      03/07/2003 04:09 PM                                                                                                  
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>Hi Folks,
>              Many thanks to Sol, Craig, Richard, Scott and others who
answered my questions regarding DVDs.
> Just got my eyes on  ASUS DVD-E616 16x tray load ATA100 from Simline
Solutions. I have never delt with them >before(not a great fan of on-line
shopping), but I like that they are not shy of saying that the product they
>sell works with Linux...
> Regards
>              Milan Pospisil

Sounds good. Where are you going to connect it?

By that I mean, I suggest that you connect it as /dev/hdc ie master on the
second IDE controller, so that if you buy a burner, you can connect it as
slave on the second IDE controller, then you can boot from the DVD drive
with either DVD or CD. Some people will say that 2 optical drives should be
on different controllers for max throughput, to prevent underruns etc. My
view is that since the IDE bus runs at the speed of the slowest device on
the controller, it is better to separate the optical drives from the hard
drives, which are lots faster.

Anybody have pressing reasons for a different configuration?

Regards
RichardM