I've always had problems trying to use a writer as slave in any configuration. Master on secondary IDE (IDE1) is the only way to go with a writer.
Toader et wrote: >On Saturday 10 August 2002 12:00 pm, you wrote: > > >>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 >> >> >as I under stand it, the problem comes into play when copy and write >functions are on the same IDE drive Channel (ie.; IDE0 writting to master >reading from Slave) it would be better to have ide0 writting slave reading >from ide1 master. or so I thought. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >
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