--- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 07 August 2005 18:12, Jeff Vian wrote: > [...] > >The only caveat I have is that generally CDROM/DVDROM devices should > >never be master to a hard disk so that should be remembered when > >installing devices/cables. Otherwise CS settings just work. > > Thats odd, at least for here. Here I have a dvd writer as /dev/hdc, > and a 200gig drive as /dev/hdd. Its the virtual tapes for amanda. > It Just Works(TM). > I believe the reason that you do not want to pair up optical drives and hard drives has to do with buss performance. I am not sure what the ratings of the newer optical drives are, but when I built my system, the CD-RW only performed at udma 66 mhz speeds while the hard drives were udma 100 mhz. Thus, I put my optical drives together on the 2nd IDE controller and the hard drives together on the 1st one.
