On Tuesday 11 Feb 2003 8:36 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 07:57, civileme wrote: > > pair was a WD. (As an aside from this, if you have enough IDE channels > > to do it, put one hard drive per channel and use the other (slave) side > > for CDROM or Zip or whatever, not only to avoid crosstalk but for > > efficient operation.) > > Hi civilme, > > Is this true when the slave does not function in DMA mode, or at a much > lower DMA mode? I've heard that IDE defaults to the mode of the slowest > device on the channel. What is you experience with this? > There's an old saying
The faster the master, The slower the slave It wouldn't matter which way round if you were right. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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