> > > 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". Damn, I guess I was too fast with saying "Fixed"... RAID 1 is ok, but I still need "ide=nodma" Without it, I get further than I used to, but I now get stuck after "Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode [OK]" The next step would be: "Setting up logical volume management" or something like that So I guess I have to keep the "ide=nodma"... MARK
