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 difficult to set up, so on a modern system you need to think carefully where you put devices to get the best performance, and reduce cd coaster production etc. I am not sure how sata fits into this scheme though? scsi does not suffer this problem to the same extent: the advantage of scsi is not just speed which is why they are best for busy servers. BillK On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:15 -0500, Tom Moyer wrote: > 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 physically swapping > the drives and then reinstalling Grub and modifying /etc/fstab to > point to new partitons. > > I don't want to swap any data across the drives I just want to have > Gentoo be the only OS installed. > > Also from one response: "Put the drives on separate channels." > Why? I want to use all three for Gentoo if possible. > > Thanks > Tom > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- [email protected] mailing list
