[SLUG] IDE Flaky on Linux ?

[Rod Butcher]

Newbie here again... I think I've narrowed dow my "system flakiness" 
during heavy audio editing to a 10-gig Seagate IDE drive I was using for 
temp work files... switching these to the main SATA 120 gig drive 
results in a stable system. Reason for using the IDE drive was to try 
and spread the disk IO around. My IDE CDROM R/W drive is also flaky on 
Linux... both IDE devices work great on Win2K dualbooted on the same 
box. So - is IDE known to be flaky on Linux, or is it a matter of me 
configuring my system better ? The CD Burner is old anyway and only 
writes these days at 2x, so I need to get another one soon - question 
is, what type should I get to suit Linux ?
thanks
Rod
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