On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:26:54AM -0500, Ward William E DLDN wrote: > > I hadn't seen any replies to this yet, so I'll venture an observation > of my own: CDRW should be the master device on any IDE chain that > they are attached to, at least whenever possible. I've noticed > marked reliability concerns and performance concerns when the CDRW > wasn't the primary on it's chain, so I would switch the two drives > around.
This has one inconvenient: If you're installing from CD, you will need to install using the CDRW drive instead of the CD-ROM one. If, like my Yamaha drive, yours is very noisy, it's goinig to feel like a looonnngggg install. > That said, I hadn't noticed a problem with CDRW write speeds before > in my setup (I have a Samsung 24-10-40 CDRW and a Liteon 16/52x DVD > drive in my box, plus a 52X HiVal CD drive that I had had in the box > until this past weekend, when I needed it's power connector to start > my new RAID 0 array). I don't see how this could be a problem either. 48 * 150 / 1024 = 7MBps I really don't see how your computer could be sending less than 7MBps to the drive unless something is seriously whacked. Even with no special parameters, my drive was getting 16,67MBps. To the orignal poster: Have you tried tweaking the drives settings? Check your drive's manual to see what it can support (I'm in DMA mode 2, FWIW). Emmanuel -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
