21 Oct
2004
21 Oct
'04
7:52 p.m.
anahata <anahata(a)treewind.co.uk> writes:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:44:11PM +0200, David Baron
wrote:
This would be good news.
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. 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