my dvd drive is only like 2 monthes old. It is a Memorex Dual Layer DVD+/- RW I think it is fairly fast. I guess now I'm just wondering would it be worth my time to make my gentoo drive my primary master, a second hard drive the primary slave, the last hard drive the secondary slave, and the dvd burner the secondary slave.
On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He has a very good point. > > The other thought is do you have a CD or DVD in one of the channels? > > If so, you need to check that the cd/dvd is as fast as your hdisk, > because a channel can only talk as fastas the slowest drive on it; to > talk aste would be to confuse the slow device & maybe cause it to cause > a computer crash or at least loss of data. > > If it is an older CD or DVD, especially CD, there is a good chance that > it will slow down the hdisk on the same channel, so you need to take > that into account while you are deciding which goes where for what use. > > His point is still valid. Especially if you have a fast cd/dvd or none. > > rgh. > > Kashani wrote: > > > Tom Moyer wrote: > > > >> Also from one response: "Put the drives on separate channels." > >> Why? I want to use all three for Gentoo if possible. > >> > > > > My mentioning it was more of a pointer for you to think about which > > drives you were going to be using most often rather than /dev/hd? > > ascetics. If you have the two heavily used drives on the same IDE > > channel you'll see some slow downs on your I/O. > > > > kashani > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
