28 Dec
2005
28 Dec
'05
6:37 p.m.
Alfred von Campe alfred@110.net wrote:
But I do have a master drive on that channel. Like I mentioned before, there are two hard disks in /dev/hd{a,c}, and the CD-ROM is / dev/hdb (like I suspected).
That's never a good idea -- both performance and stability-wise. When you have a DMA ATA device, put it on its own channel. The master/slave design was for old EIDE using PIO ATA.
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