On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 13:05, dsavage@peaknet.net wrote: > On Tuesday, February 25 2003, Wade Hampton wrote: > > My CD and first hard drive are on the first controller. > > The second hard drive is on the second controller. > > Wade, > > That may be your problem. There's a huge speed difference between hard > drives and CD-ROM drives. That's why they're almost never installed on the > same cable. Can you try swapping things around so that both hard drives > are on the same cable/controller? > ---- First of all, if the hard drives are ATA 66 or ATA 100 and the motherboard supports DMA 66 or 100, then I would have a suitable IDE cable on the primary controller and both drives on the primary controller IF there wasn't any software RAID. If the motherboard controller doesn't support UDMA or if I were using software RAID, then I would have the CD & the 2nd hard drive on the second controller. Craig -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
