Re: New HD advice
On Friday 13 August 2004 18:09, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
wrote:
> With that said, if you have 2 disks, it's important to have them both
> installed as IDE primaries, never having two disks on the same IDE
> channel as primary and secondary. The idea is that your system can
> read/write to the two primaries at the same time, whereas with a primary
> and secondary setup, the read/write must alternate between the primary
> and secondary.
I thought this as well. But I was also told that if two differeing devices
share and IDE, the slower one sets the rate. (This may be the cause of all
those error-51 messages.) So if I put the two disks on two IDEs as primaries
and the CDs as secondaries, the results may not be good.
However, I originally set things up similarly and had no complaints. So ...
what is the truth here.
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