[LBo] Re: Installing Linux on a second drive.

[Geoff Jones]

HI Jisao,

> To get into hardware, it is better to keep hard drives in one ide, and 
> cdrom in another ide.  Or in the case of one hard drive, to put the hard 
> drive in the primary ide and the cdrom in the secondary ide.  Putting a 
> hard drive and a cdrom drive in the same ide slows down the transfer 
> rate of the hard drive to the level of the cdrom drive.  As a hard drive 
> is way faster than a cdrom, you lose speed if you put them on the same 
> ide.

Are you sure about this?
I was told that hard drives should always be "masters" for optimum speed, and 
to put cd/dvd's as secondary .
So i have hda + hdc = hard disks and hdb + hdd = dvd r/w + cd rom.

Geoff.

Btw, I agree that grub rocks - I started out with Lilo - but with multiple 
distro installs have switched to grub - paste and copy in menu.lst.
Also being able to "shell" edit on-the-fly is useful.