I'll have to dis-agree here. I've run both a HP 8100 and as of just this week, a LiteOn 40x12x48 CDRW as slave on the secondary IDE. Both worked just fine.
-- Brian Craft Registered Linux User # 210286 Linux Registered machine: 97873 Yahoo Instant Messenger ID: bcraft67 ICQ id: 129672292 AIM: linuxgeek67 Linux......the OS of Choice! "After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password." -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 On Saturday 10 August 2002 03:30 pm, Todd Franklin wrote: > 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
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