On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:46, Allan Metts wrote: > 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 Putting a CDROM as a Slave to one of the hard drives should not hurt performance. I have software raid 1 set up like this and use the CDROM for loading software, updates, etc (no net access). Travis Fraser
