ide is way better on linux than in windows but that all depends on the support for your ide controller chip (so basically the driver)
options include upgrading your kernel or getting another ide controller. i just bought a nice silicon image pci ide controller for $40 whole dollars that gives me another 2 channels ata133
Dean
Rod Butcher wrote:
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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