RE: IDE CD-RW
FYI - I also heard not to put a CD as a slave if you had a HD as the master.
The reason I heard was that when the CD was in use the IDE bus would be
passing data at the speed of the CD and so slow down the HD data to that
same speed.
How true this is I am not sure, but it makes a kind of sense.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin C. Smith [mailto:kevin@debian]On Behalf Of Kevin C. Smith
Sent: 17 January 2001 00:38
To: john gennard
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: IDE CD-RW
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:42:22PM +0000, john gennard wrote:
> I've purchased a Traxdata 8x4x32 CD-RW, and can only install it on my
> main box. Unfortunately, this has two Hard Disks (both on the Primary
> IDE channel) and a normal CD Drive as Master on the second channel.
>
> The literature with the CD-RW is basic and suggests ways in which it
> can be installed on those channels already in use. This seems to
> imply that I shouldnot/cannot use the secondary channel slave, but it
> does not specifically say so.
>
> I have very vague recollections of some advice against putting CD
> Drives on the secondary slave, but am unable to remember where I read
> this (if in fact I did!)
>
> If I replace my CD with the CD-RW, would I be able to use the later
> for normal reading and would I require any special drivers?
>
> Can anyone please suggest the most suitable way to proceed. I assume
> Potato (which is what I run) will support the drive - it did so with
> earlier models. All software supplied is for Windoze, so there is no
> information of any value.
>
> Grateful for any assistance. John.
>
I have the same setup with no difficulties. My CD-RW works fine as
a slave on the secondary channel.
You will of course need scsi support and scsi emulation build into your
kernel for the CD-RW to work; The stock Debian kernel does.
In lilo.conf add
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
Kevin
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