On Friday 09 Aug 2002 6:27 pm, you wrote: > On Friday August 9 2002 10:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I do feel much better if my writer is a master. FWIW many drives > > come with the jumper set to slave, assuming that you will put it > > behind your HDD, so t may be that both are expecting to be slave > > which won't work. > > > > Anne > > Master is fine on ide1, if you only have one HDD on ide0. I've built > many systems with 2 HDD's, both on ide0, and cdrom as primary and a > cd-rw drive as slave on ide1. I've found this works the best. Mixin CD > drives and HDD's on either channel usually isn't a best idea.
Done it both ways, and generally things are OK, but this time I 'played safe', putting two disks (they're not big ones) on 1 UDMA channel, the CD-RW as master and CD/DVD as slave on second UDMA channel, and an old 4 Gn disk which holds my home partition on first IDE channel. Theoretically I could add more, but I'd need an enormous box <g> Anne
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