And I have been doing computer technician work for about 8 years now and I have always placed the CD ROM on the secondary IDE channel. The reason for this (and I admit I have never done any testing myself to find out if this is true) is that the IDE channel will default to the slowest speed on the ribbon cable, so if you have a hard drive and a cd drive located on the same IDE ribbon cable it will slow your hard drive speed down.
If you think this is incorrect or have actually run tests regarding this please let me know. Adam. On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:24, Michael Fox wrote: > Quoting Terry Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > Go into the bios setup and detect the hard drives again. If you can > > > boot off CD the bios will detect the CD as well. If it does not > > then > > > you have done something wrong. > > > > 2c, just another thing to check. In all the bioses that I've dealt > > with, > > the CD has to be on the primary IDE channel to be able to boot from > > it. > > > > Not quite true. bios which allow booting from cdrom I've used, have allowed me > to have the cdrom on the secondary channel as master drive and it boots fine :P > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
