Am Mi, den 25.02.2004 schrieb Allan Metts um 14:46: > At 05:29 AM 2/25/2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > >Yes. IDE doesn't permit simultaneous access to disks on the same > >controller. Well, you could make do with two disks on a single > >controller, but performance would be terrible. > > > Okay, two IDE identical drives -- one will be the Master on the Primary > controller, the other will be the Master on the Secondary controller. > > Next question: Will it hurt anything to put the CDROM drive as the Slave on > the secondary controller? This is a no-no in the SCSI world, since I think > it slows the entire bus down to the speed of the slowest device. But I > need a CDROM to actually install Fedora, and I'd rather not buy an > additional controller.... > > Thanks for the help! > > Allan It's no problem to have a CD-ROM as slave together with a harddrive on the same controller. It will not slow down the whole controller. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl Sirendipity 20:40:12 up 5 days, 22:14, load average: 0.12, 0.12, 0.09 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]