anahata <anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. > > 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. This would be good news. > 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. So you'd say putting both hds (as masters) on the 2 ide channels and the optical drives (which have significantly less importance to me) as the slaves is the way to go? Robert Epprecht
