2006-02-14 (火) の 22:34 +1030 に Tim さんは書きました: > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 11:34 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > The people that sold me the box and the controllers were pleased that > > I didn't have any particular problems using the slave interface on > > that particular motherboard. (They had specifically warned me that > > there would be no guarantees on it.) > > Just to be clear, a slave drive is on on the same cable as another > (master) drive. If you have two IDE ports on the interface one isn't a > master and the other slave, it's just two ports. Yeah, my post wasn't very clear. Two channels per controller, master/slave device per channel, master device should be on the connector closest to the controller because of noise issues and that's why some half-bright got the idea that it should just be left up to cable select anyway, ... And it's no surprise that it sometimes "just works" for some people, and sometimes just can't be made to do what you really wanted it to do. ATA confuses me. It irks me no end that ATA has become mainstream, while SCSI gets no respect. To say what I meant to say, I removed the _second_ controller card (not slave controller or whatever it was I said) and have both drives on the mobo's controller's primary channel, with the CD drive all by itself on the secondary channel (pretending to the BIOS that it's SCSI no less). Grub is on the drive on the "master" connector (closest to the controller on the cable, strapped CS), along with FC3, and two BSDs. The drive connected to the slave controller (which is actually there to be a spare because I don't trust ATA drives) has another BSD and sometimes other Linux on it. I had planned to spread swap across the two drives, in BIOS-level partitions shared by all OSses, and I will probably do so when I put the other controller back in. But for now, keeping all of my partitions for each OS on the drive that OS resides on allows it to "just" (ahem) work. (Yeah, right. It doesn't do what I really most wanted it to do, didn't get some important jobs done, but it's useable, just. Hey, Netbeans runs fine on it. I'll probably end up plugging a TV card in it and using it instead of the TVs that keep dying on us.) Sigh. I've forgotten why I bothered posting that. (And I don't think I want to remember.) Sorry for the noise.
