Re: ASUS P4B533 Motherboard
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:20:36 +1100, Rob Weir <rweir@softhome.net>
wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:07:33PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
>> I should look into the IDE card. I have two IDE drives (not RAID) and IDE
>> CD-R and CD/DVD. I'm never sure if both hard drives should go on one IDE
>> as master/slave, or if the drives should both be masters with the CDs on
>> the slaves.
>
>Ideally they should all be on their own channel, but that's rarely
>practical. I'd make sure that your CD-R and main HD are on separate
>busses tho, otherwise you might not be able to get any sort of
>reasonable burn speed.
>
>After much playing, I ended up with my CD-ROM (master; it really, really
>didn't like being a slave on any bus) and CD-R on the same channel and
>the HD and Zip drive on the other. As long as I remember to never, ever
>try to use the CD-ROM while burning, it works fine.
>
>-rob
My experimentation led me to:
/dev/hda4: main HD
/dev/hdb: CD-ROM (using ide-scsi)
/dev/hdc: CD-RW (using ide-scsi)
/dev/hdd: Old WDC2850 HD used for transferring files from Linux to
Windoze
/dev/sd{a,b,c}: SCSI HDs
Burning from any of main HD, CD-ROM ("on the fly"), or SCSI HD works
fine. Burning from /dev/hdd is possible at 1x, but I never want to do
that anyway. /dev/hdd is there because one day after writing some
files from Linux to my Windoze partition /dev/hda1, I booted Windoze
to find the root directory and FAT trashed. I didn't particularly want
to experiment to find out why, so now I just use a sacrificial HD.
Why are some CD-ROMs fussy about being the slave, given that the
subservience implied by the name does not actually exist in the
hardware? Some WDC2850 HDs (not the one above) are like this too.
Pigeon
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