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Oh, If you have sata, I do not speak SATA yet; so in that case my advice
might be "deprecated"... J.I.C.!
Tom Moyer wrote:
my dvd drive is only like 2 monthes old. It is a Memorex Dual Layer
DVD+/- RW I think it is fairly fast. I guess now I'm just wondering
would it be worth my ti
drives on separate channels: ide busses que commands serially, and wait
for responses tying up the channel. The workaround is to put your high
throughput devices on separate channels, keep generally slower cdroms
away from faster devices, and keep cd burners on their own channel.
Yes, rather di
my dvd drive is only like 2 monthes old. It is a Memorex Dual Layer
DVD+/- RW I think it is fairly fast. I guess now I'm just wondering
would it be worth my time to make my gentoo drive my primary master, a
second hard drive the primary slave, the last hard drive the secondary
slave, and the dvd
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Tom Moyer wrote:
yeah but i don't think i will right away i thought I could get qemu to
run Windows XP but it seems there is a bug in it that prevents it from
booting correctly so I'll wait to do this for now.
I figured that the system would be more organized if i moved the
promary driv
He has a very good point.
The other thought is do you have a CD or DVD in one of the channels?
If so, you need to check that the cd/dvd is as fast as your hdisk,
because a channel can only talk as fastas the slowest drive on it; to
talk aste would be to confuse the slow device & maybe cause it to
yeah but i don't think i will right away i thought I could get qemu to
run Windows XP but it seems there is a bug in it that prevents it from
booting correctly so I'll wait to do this for now.
I figured that the system would be more organized if i moved the
promary drive(120 Gig with Gentoo) to pri
Tom Moyer wrote:
Also from one response: "Put the drives on separate channels."
Why? I want to use all three for Gentoo if possible.
My mentioning it was more of a pointer for you to think about which
drives you were going to be using most often rather than /dev/hd?
ascetics. If you have the two
Tom Moyer wrote:
I would like to swap hda and hdb.
I don't want to swap any data across the drives I just want to have
Gentoo be the only OS installed.
Linux, including Gentoo, can run from any drive in the system.
If Gentoo is not already your default boot from Grub, you can easily
make it so; as
Alright it seems like there was some confusion.
hda (40 Gig) has only Windows XP with Grub installed to it's MBR
hdb (120 Gig) has only Gentoo (all partitions including /boot)
hdc(30 Gig) currently unused
I would like to swap hda and hdb.
>From what I could gather all this would involve is physic
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