[linux-audio-user] Re: OT: ide drives

[Robert Epprecht]

anahata <anahata at treewind.co.uk> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:44:11PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
>> Why does "everyone" set things up with HDs on one channel, CDs on the other? I 
>> was told that the slower CD device will slow down the HD.
>
> It used to be true. It was often misrepresented as the CD slowing the HD
> down to its speed but I think the real reason had something to do with
> spurious interrupts not being handled properly by one driver or the
> other. I think now everything is properly EIDE or ATAPI (or what ever
> the relevant spec is) compliant, it is no longer a problem.

This would be good news.

> There is still some sense in putting two HDs on different controllers,
> so that drive use can be efficiently overlapped if both drives are
> likely to be active at once.

So you'd say putting both hds (as masters) on the 2 ide channels and the
optical drives (which have significantly less importance to me) as the
slaves is the way to go?

Robert Epprecht