"B. K. Barley" wrote:
>
> Thanks Cicileme and Kevin.
>
> It's not that i mind rebuilding a kernel, but for somereason I always loose
> features in the mandrake and usually have a heck of a time getting the
> kernel installed.
>
> Anyway, I'm glad that I won't need to rebuild the kernel after all.
>
> Kevin,
>
> You have a zip drive as a slave to the burner? Hmmm...does that drop your
> burner performance? I thought that two IDE devices on the same bus can only
> go as fast as the slowest device connected. And I know that Zip drives are
> terribly slow when it comes to transfer speeds. At least that's how I
> understand it. So I will probably set my burner as a slave to my dvd drive.
> Not sure yet really.
>
Doesn't seem to make any difference at all. It may be the case that the
Xfer speeds are set to the slowest device while talking to the slowest,
but I can't confirm that. The burner certainly runs at 4x while writing
to RW media. I haven't tried mucking about with the zip at the same
time. Sorry, no data points other than "Works for me".
/Kevin
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