On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ken Bloom wrote: > a) Is a CD-ROM drive really slow as an IDE device?
It's waaaay slower than hard drive, IDE or otherwise. > b) Will a slow master slow down the slave? I'm not sure. Whether it does or not, though, you do want the faster device as the master for performance reasons. > If I have to rearrange the drives as master/slave, then: > c) Do cable positions matter concerning master/slave configuration or > just the jumper settings? Just the jumpers should be fine. Sometimes the BIOS can flip the master/slave settings, too. -Mark -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the website _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
