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

[Jisao]

Geoff Jones wrote:
> 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. 
>   
Pretty sure that hardware that don't have the same speed should be put 
on different channels.  For more info:  
http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html

Jisao