> > > Thanks, I will try putting them on different controller ports. Problem > > is that I then have to put the HD and CDROM together on one > > controller, but I'll see how that turns out... Guess it can only get > > better - or not work at all any more > > I don't see why you think the problem would be putting the > hard drive and the CDROM on the same controller. It is no > problem. The IDE bus handles the different speeds properly > itself and the CDROM does not constantly slow down the > transfer rate for the hard drive. I even would imagine that > the CDROM is used only rarely compared with the hard drive > being part of a RAID1 array. I thought people usually say you should keep HDs and CD-ROMs separate so the CD-ROM does not slow down the HD. But maybe that is not true for newer systems any more, or it has always been an urban legend... Anyway, I had problems with the current configuration before, because running only the CDROM on the second controller caused the machine not to boot unless I used "ide=nodma". That however caused problems with a "lost too many ticks" error. So I figured mixing HD and CD-ROM would make even more problems than having the CDROM by itself on that controller port. But I guess I was wrong. I now have both HDs as master on the two IDE ports and the CD-ROM as slave on the secondary IDE and everything works fine. RAID 1 has normal speed, install ran through at normal speed and I can now even boot without "ide=nodma". Thanks for the suggestion! MARK
