-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good morning, Stef...
On Friday 17 January 2003 09:16 am, stefmit wrote: > If I would dare to jump in (I apologize if this is off, as I have not > gotten the chance to read the original FAQ, thus to understand what's > beeing suggested there) - but as far as my experience goes, you do not want > to combine on the same controller high speed devices (hard drives), and > lower speed ones (cd-roms, zip drives, etc.) - thus having the zip on its > own controller, separated from the hard drives. I thought enough of what you said to set up a few testing combinations on an old Pentium I had downstairs. If my hunch is correct, now that I've tried some combinations, I think this is largely dependent upon the type of EIDE interface, itself. Some of the older IDE interfaces, particularly those that came on a card (remember THEM?) suffered from this problem. An older pair of IDE interfaces on a 1998 motherboard had similar problems. I tried a somewhat esoteric combination of IDE cards, 486 motherboards and a pair of old Pentium motherboards, each with approximately the same level of failure. However, on a newer motherboard, particularly with a newer BIOS, the problem goes away. Thus far, using a more modern motherboard and BIOS, I have been able to get the BIOS to recognize the Zip drive in about every position, without regard to the speed of any devices sharing the buss. In fact, as an update of sorts, so long as I manually mount the zip drive thus: mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd /zip it works flawlessly, and is very usable. If I don't manually mount the device, however, because of some KDE strangeness, it mounts the drive, but defaults it to vfat. I'll have to locate where the mount statement occurs in KDE's startup scripts and fix it to where it works the same as the manual statement (above). All in all, it's working fine now, and the drive chain problems that existed on older systems appears to be a thing of the past. Thanks again... Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/02/2003 Music Calendar & Website: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html Usenet news server : news://news.kharma.net An automatic & random thought For the Minute: The world is coming to an end--save your buffers! A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+LQ/EaE1ENZP1A28RAvfuAJ4vllODHnGPp/64xBmE0HiXEYMzlQCgqmGD hghDa3z6Sz7LG+i5KELTbJI= =c7w0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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