Is this true only for cd-roms, or is it also true for other ide devices? What I mean is for example if I have a hard drive as primary master, and zip drive as primary slave, am I going to experience this slow down too when copying from one to the other, or not? Greg On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:04:33AM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: > This is not a good idea unless ide channels are limited. > The reason for this is that once one device is accessing the ide bus the other > device doesn't get a look in until the first device has finished. > The practical upshot of this is that installs from cdromt o hard disk go really slowly because > both devices want contention on the ide bus. > With the multitude of IDE devices these days it can be difficult to get the combinations right. > Slaving a cdrom to a burner is ok provided you don't want to do on-the-fly > copying with your cdrom to burner. > Slaving a burner to a hard drive can also cause problems if your i/o subsystem is not up to > keeping both devices busy. > If you have a cdrom only put it master on the secondary controller if you don't have 2 hard drives or put it as > slave on the secondary if you have a hard drive on both controllers. > If you have a cdorm and a burner I cable like this: > primary master, hard drive. > Primary slave, empty > Secondary master, cd burner, secondary slave, cdrom. > I don't on-the-fly copy from cd to burner, I let the computer > put it on the hard drive as an intermediate step. > > Regards, Kerry. > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 08:02:31PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > > I've never bilt a computer, but i've taken about 100 apart. In most cases, > > and most of the machines I gutted were older ones, the cdrom is slaved to > > the hard drive witch is the master. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
