I agree with Anne, as a rule, I keep my writer as master on the secondary IDE chain. Other than that, I've had no problems running a hard drive or another CD-ROM as slave on the secondary IDE. As long as the writer is master on the secondary chain, it doesn't care if the slave is a cdrom or a hard drive.
Toader Anne Wilson wrote: >On Friday 09 Aug 2002 6:27 pm, you wrote: > > >>On Friday August 9 2002 10:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >> >>>I do feel much better if my writer is a master. FWIW many drives >>>come with the jumper set to slave, assuming that you will put it >>>behind your HDD, so t may be that both are expecting to be slave >>>which won't work. >>> >>>Anne >>> >>> >> Master is fine on ide1, if you only have one HDD on ide0. I've built >>many systems with 2 HDD's, both on ide0, and cdrom as primary and a >>cd-rw drive as slave on ide1. I've found this works the best. Mixin CD >>drives and HDD's on either channel usually isn't a best idea. >> >> > >Done it both ways, and generally things are OK, but this time I 'played >safe', putting two disks (they're not big ones) on 1 UDMA channel, the CD-RW >as master and CD/DVD as slave on second UDMA channel, and an old 4 Gn disk >which holds my home partition on first IDE channel. Theoretically I could >add more, but I'd need an enormous box <g> > >Anne > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
