On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 23:45 -0500, Peter Teuben wrote: > But the basic problem is that in order for desktops to "automatically" > detect that a CD has been added/removed, it has to poll /dev/hdb, but > poor little /dev/hda is then interrupted, at least on a Dell 8200 this > causes the HD performance to go down by about a factor 2-4. Not familiar with that model, but I'm presuming it's not possible to move the CD onto a different IDE port?
