On Mar 23, 2000 at 09:05, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
>At 11:46 PM 22/03/2000 , Satya wrote:
>>Want me to rave about how the entire system was slow until I put the 2nd
>>hard disk from hdc to hdb, and then had to go change all references?
>
>Yes please do! Does changing the port and M/S configurations affect the
>speed of the system? I currently use an 8.6 GB HD on hdc ...
Only while reading a CD-R that hadn't been properly closed after writing.
The system would go off the end of the CD and keep seeking, resulting in
IRQ timeouts, ATAPI resets that didn't work, and so on. Since it was
trying to access /dev/hdd, /dev/hdc got left behind. But /dev/hdc was my
main Linux hard disk. Putting it on /dev/hdb let /dev/hdd hog the entire
secondary cable and do whatever it wanted.
Should put the source drives and target drives on different systems while
writing CDs. If not writing CDs, put drives that will be used at the same
time on different cables.
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