[techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

[The Cat In The Hat]

I was under the impression that the last drive on the cable is the primary.  Most of the time you can put the drive jumpers on cable select and then set it up that way.

The 'suffering' I am aware of in the speed is due to the bottle neck on the PCI bus.  This is due to the fact that the bus is so much slower than the speed your computer is processing information at.

Thanks,

CatNTHat

-----Original Message-----
From:    jenn at simegen.com
Sent:    Mon, 17 Apr 2000 03:52:20 +0000
To:      techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

The Cat In The Hat wrote:
> 
> The CD-Rom is the secondary slave because of where it is on the cable.  You want your new hard drive to be the primary slave in the system. You do not want to move you CD-Rom to the Primary slave position.  The position it is currently in is actually the best for future upgrades and additions of hard drives.

Actually, to my knowledge the location on the cable is irrelevent. The
Cat is correct in saying it's a hardware issue, though. (it's not Linux,
it's the way EISA PCs are built.)

Drives connected to one of the ports on the IDE card (or section of the
motherboard) are primary. If their jumper is set to master, they're
master. If their jumper is set to slave, they're slave. These terms
could as easily be 'A' and 'B' or 'banana' and 'pear' - arbitrary terms.

Drives connected to the other port on the IDE card are secondary. Same
jumper settings.

I was unaware of any performance differences based on location, but
someone in the thread mentioned that HD slaves of ATAPI devices can
suffer. (or 'pears' where an ATAPI is the 'banana'. Hm. Maybe the terms
aren't quite that arbitrary.)



Jenn V.
-- 
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