> Is is better to run a 2nd drive on another IDE channel or on the same bus? > Eg. IDE channel 1 = ad0 (main OS), IDE channel 2 = ad1 (other data - maybe > MySQL and websites?) > For performance reasons a seperate channel is better. If you're anal about cable neatness, air flow and all that weird stuff a single cable does have some benefit for some people. I prefer the two channel method whether it's two hard drives or a disk and cd-rom, since an IDE disk can only do one thing at a time.
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