I don't know if it will solve your problem, what I have is the two hard
drive are in primary and CDrom in secondary
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William Tung
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/billt
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Steven Michael Wilder wrote:
> I wanted to run my linux/win95 installation by you guys to see if
> I've missed anything.
>
> I had a 1gig drive with only Linux on it and recently purchased a
> 5gig drive. They are both IDE drives. The original config was
> the 1gig as 1st IDE master and the CDrom as 1st IDE slave.
>
> To install win95, I put the 5gig as 1st IDE master, CDrom 1st IDE slave.
> That worked fine. Then I changed it to the way I wanted it to end
> up with the 1gig 1st master and the 5gig 2nd IDE master. However
> win95 ran about 1/20th as fast as it shoulda because it didn't like
> it that some unkown format was on the 1st IDE.
> Since Linux knows about win95, I put the 5gig on 1st IDE master and
> the 1gig on the 2nd IDE master (cdrom still 1st IDE slave). Win95
> liked that just fine. Then I used a boot floppy and changed
> /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab to point to /dev/hdc instead of
> /dev/hda. Linux seems to be happy with this too.
>
> So, what am I missing if anything?
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