On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 12:18, Adam Hewitt wrote: > 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.
Not quite right, it is actually worse than you said. All four drives are run by the same IDE chip therefore you can have conflict with an old CD on a second chain and the whole process is reliant on the ability of the IDE chip to process both datastreams. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
