On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:
> The thing is that, unlike SCSI, only one device can be using an
> IDE bus at any one time.
a common misconception ...
electrically ...
only one ide disk can drive the signals on the ide cable at any
time
similarly, even scsi
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> I agree that in general this is a bad idea, but some tests seemed to show
> me that pluging the optical drives as slaves to the hd's as masters does
> *not* slow them down with my specific hardware.
simple speed test ... ( must write and read at the
Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > > /dev/hda hd
>> > > /dev/hdb dvd writer
>> > > /dev/hdc hd
>> > > /dev/hdd dvd rom
>> >
>> > I have found mixing hd's & cd'd on the same IDE controller to cause
>> > issues. I have even had issues with the position of the drives on the
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote:
>
>> >> > /dev/hda hd
>> >> > /dev/hdb dvd writer
>> >> > /dev/hdc hd
>> >> > /dev/hdd dvd rom
>
> bad idea .. esp if the drives are NOT the same ata-33, ata-66 or ata-100
> or ata-133 speeds
I agree that
Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 09:31 pm, Robert Epprecht wrote:
>> >> > Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked
>> >> > fine. Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive...
>> >> > The trouble starts when I want to use ide-scs
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 09:41 -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
[snip]
> An optical drive (slow) running on the same IDE channel as a hard drive
> (fast) will slow down data transfer to and from the hard drive, when the
> optical drive is operating (by forcing a lower DMA mode?). So in the
> configur
> > > /dev/hda hd
> > > /dev/hdb dvd writer
> > > /dev/hdc hd
> > > /dev/hdd dvd rom
> >
> > I have found mixing hd's & cd'd on the same IDE controller to cause
> > issues. I have even had issues with the position of the drives on the
> > ribbon cable, depending on the UDMA number of th
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> >> > /dev/hda hd
> >> > /dev/hdb dvd writer
> >> > /dev/hdc hd
> >> > /dev/hdd dvd rom
bad idea .. esp if the drives are NOT the same ata-33, ata-66 or ata-100
or ata-133 speeds
==
== you cannot mix devices with different ata
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 09:31 pm, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 12:38 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:35 am, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> >> > Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything work
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 12:38 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
>> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:35 am, Robert Epprecht wrote:
>> > Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked fine.
>> > Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive:
>> >
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 12:38 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:35 am, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked fine.
> > Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive:
> >
> > /dev/hda hd
> > /dev/hdb d
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:35 am, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> Hello
>
> Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked fine.
> Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive:
>
> /dev/hda hd
> /dev/hdb dvd writer
> /dev/hdc hd
> /dev/hdd dvd rom
>
> A short test with a
Hello
Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked fine.
Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive:
/dev/hda hd
/dev/hdb dvd writer
/dev/hdc hd
/dev/hdd dvd rom
A short test with another OS (no, it's debian woody ;-) without ide-scsi
seems to do fine with all of
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