Sorry, forgot to put debian in the adress-field. It's getting late here in denmark... Vitux
Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Wichmann, Viggo > Sendt: 25. august 1999 20:11 > Til: 'Patrick Olson' > Emne: Re: more RAM = more speed? > > Hi Patrick > I sincerely doubt if you will have any kind of trouble putting in another > drive. I've done it recently without any squeaks. > I'd say it might be worth getting a (small?) new(-ish), (but most > important) fast drive, and maybe just use part of it for swap, and use the > rest for something else like /tmp or whatever. Being a relative newbie, > I'm not sure how to actually do it, but some wiz guys can probably > enlighten you (and me!) on how to "split" your filesystem on several > disks... > hth > Vitux > > > Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Patrick Olson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 25. august 1999 17:14 > Til: Brian Servis > Cc: recipient list not shown > Emne: Re: more RAM = more speed? > > > Thanks for the other info on RAM, it will be very useful. > > > Add a second hard drive on the second ide channel(hdc) It is good to > > have a swap partition on a different controller channel with each > > partition having equal priority. The kernel will use the partition > > which will provide the best performance. > > I don't know much when it comes to drives in Debian, so I have a few > questions: > > 1. hdc has been a CD-ROM since the second I booted the Debian install CD. > > Will anything bad happen if hdc is suddenly a hard disk and hdd is now the > CD-ROM? I haven't actually used the CD-ROM since I finished installing, > so the only possible trouble spot might be booting. > > 2. Is there a a how-to or some doc's for this? I made a swap partition > with cfdisk in the beginning and let the (excellent) install program > figure out the rest. Thus, I never learned much about swap. > > 3. Since any drive I add will be old and slow (<200MB), is it worth it? > > That is interesting that when both are given equal priority, the kernel > figures out which one is best. I didn't know about that feature. > > Thank you, > Patrick Olson > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
