On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:35:00PM -0000, John Kennedy wrote:
> Should I remove the CDROM after installing RH-7.0
> or is it advisable/possible to buy a separate
> IDE controller card to connect 'just to' the IDE CDROM?
The latter is certainly correct if you're worried about performance.
I know that an operating CDROM as a slave _will_ slow transfers. I'm not
certain if just its presence, operating or not, will slow the bus--my
gut response is not. (But I'm certain that if I'm wrong, the collective
intellect here will correct me _muy pronto_.)
But if you have any intentions of making this production, or just
wanting predictable performance, yes, get another controller card.
And it needn't be an expensive one, since the CDROM isn't used often
(relatively speaking.)
Cheers,
--
Dave Ihnat
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