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If you're going to use 2 of those drives at the same time put them on
seperate ide cables.  A hard drive and cd berner  will perform better if on
seperate cables.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: curious


> check the jumpers.
> the hard drive which I assume is on the first ide controler (ide0)
> should be set to master.  The 2 other drives which I assume are on ide1
> should be set to slave and master, with one being master and the other
> being slave.
>  On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:17:01PM -0500,
> Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote:
> > Hi, I've finally have obtained everything I need to install slackware
9.1, at least I think so.
> > However, I'm curious as to why my harddrive is being assigned hdb
instead of hda.
> > In addition, linux, and windows for that matter, are unable to detect my
HP cd-rw drive if the Matshita dvd drive is connected.  Does anyone have any
idea
> > of why the Matshita and HP won't get along on the same ide cable?  I
suppose that I could connect one the cd drives with the harddrive, but that
would
> > require purchasing a new cable.  The one that connects the harddrive is
too short to reach the cd drives.
> > -- Rob
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