On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:47:51AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. I just picked up an HP 9150i burner. I currently have an Acer > x40 CD-ROM, and it's /dev/hdd. That means that it's the slave of the second > IDE controller, yes? The burner is an IDE device as well, and I need to set > the jumpers for the desired controller. Now, is there a reason why, when I > have a single harddrive (/dev/hda), that the CDROM would be a slave of the > second controller when there is no master? Should I be ok if I set the burner > as /dev/hdc?
It all depends:) On olther motherboards not all ide-ports were treated equally, the primary master always won, the slaves were sometimes a little degenerated. On some the secondairy ide port was paused when the primary was i use. Atleast that's what I seem to recall to have read somewhere. Other then that, having the disc on which you have to stuff to burn onto CD and the cd on the same ide-port is sometimes adviced against just to make sure that you wont get coasters. And some burners (like the Plextor ide burner) even have to be a master according to their docs. So cdwriter on /dev/hdc seems okee in all respects on modern MoBo's. -- groetjes, carel
