-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
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Of William L. Maltby Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:32 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP
I think for maximum performance, if you have a secondary channel, put the linux disk on that channel, rather than primary channel.
The flat cables won't reach. 8-}
<*chuckle*>
Yeah, I know it sounds pretty daft to fail on such a lo-tech issue... But there it is. ;-)
I can't tell you how many times I've found myself in that situation... *after* I installed the drive and *then* tried to attach the cables. This was back when a whole bunch of screws were involved.
When the cables were only 40 conductor I bought a whole roll and a bunch of connectors and made my own as needed. Now that stuff is 80 wires, I don't do that. Since I use full towers, this was a problem. I searched on-line and found some quality extended ones, but they were fairly expensive. For your use, they may not be worth it. Or budgets may intrude, etc.
Nah, not worth all the extra trouble to optimise with different channels, better cables and whatnot, the performance isn't a problem anyway. My main concern, and goal, is general stability.
Anyway, glad your setup is working now.
Well, my new run through the documented procedures totally failed for some reason... I need to retrace the steps I took and see where it went wrong and why. 8-/
I'm reghosting as I write this.