On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:44:11PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Why does "everyone" set things up with HDs on one channel, CDs on the other? I > was told that the slower CD device will slow down the HD. I had run Windoze > with a setup like the above with no problems, however. It used to be true. It was often misrepresented as the CD slowing the HD down to its speed but I think the real reason had something to do with spurious interrupts not being handled properly by one driver or the other. I think now everything is properly EIDE or ATAPI (or what ever the relevant spec is) compliant, it is no longer a problem. There is still some sense in putting two HDs on different controllers, so that drive use can be efficiently overlapped if both drives are likely to be active at once. -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827
