Thanks.
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Reynar wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
I'd just put my hardrive on one IDE channel, then share the DVD and plextor on the other. Can just set them to cable select and let the computer sort it out.
I'd agree with you, but it's good to have the DVD-ROM and CD-RW drive on separate channels for direct burning... If you're into that. 
Go out, get another HDD
Set it up so you have the primary IDE with the HDD master, the CD-RW slave.
Then set up the secondary IDE with the 2nd HDD master, and the DVD slave.
The reason being, if you set up a 2nd HDD and partition off about 1 gig or so, you can set that to be swap space. Running swap space off of the 2nd HDD on the secondary IDE will boost your performance considerably.
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Reynar had this to say about Pirotess:
I'd just put my hardrive on one IDE channel, then share the DVD and plextor on the other. Can just set them to cable select and let the computer sort it out.
I was thinking about that, but I'm not sure my motherboard has Cable Select.
Asus A7V 133, I think.
[EDIT]I might have my old 15 gig lying around. Would that work? Its 7200 RPMs, ATA 100.
Also running Windows XP Professionsal Edition. [ 07-09-2002: Message edited by: Cap'n Elethi ]
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Khyron had this to say about pies:
My advise is this :Go out, get another HDD
Set it up so you have the primary IDE with the HDD master, the CD-RW slave.
Then set up the secondary IDE with the 2nd HDD master, and the DVD slave.
The reason being, if you set up a 2nd HDD and partition off about 1 gig or so, you can set that to be swap space. Running swap space off of the 2nd HDD on the secondary IDE will boost your performance considerably.
can you do this with windows XP?
I'm getting a new HD this week, 40 GB, and currently have a 20GB. I'm going to set up the 20GB for Linux and some experimental O/S's.
i'm assuming pagefile=swap space, ?
Install the new HD as the secondary master, slave the burner to the 60 gig, then slave the dvd-rom to the new drive? Then just edit that thing?
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We were all impressed when Kegwen 2.0 wrote:
Yeah...Edit: Image removed for space saving :-)
When there's multiple partitions availiable, you can choose to have your swap file on another partition. I neglected to do this upon my latest format. =/
good deal. is that windowsblinds i see there???
is it possible to boot linux off of a HD residing on the secondary IDE? i can't remember....
IDE controlers can't run two different devices at two different speeds on one cable. If you plug, say a CD-ROM which usually operates at 33 or 66 mbps, and a Hard drive which can go as fast as 100 mbps into the same cable, the controler has to run at the speed of the slowest device.
When both devices on an IDE controller are being accessed at the same time, the controller handles this by only acessing one device per clock cycle- effectivly cutting the transfer speed in half for each device.
Thus, under your current set up, you are only getting either 16.6 or 33 mbps of bandwidth when you are using both the DVD and the Hard drive at the same time.
in other words
CHANGE IT. [ 07-09-2002: Message edited by: Blind Swordsman ]
you're probably more likely to be going from the hdd to the optical drives, inless you make lots of direct disc copies, then i'd split the drives like this:
Pri Mast: HDD
PRI slave: DVD
sec mast: burner
No, Really. Bite me.
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Blind Swordsman stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
If i may point something out-in other words
CHANGE IT.
To what configuration? [ 07-10-2002: Message edited by: Cap'n Elethi ]
