[techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

Wendt,Andrew awendt at neo.rr.com
Mon Apr 17 01:31:10 EST 2000


On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:

>There are also issues with putting devices that can handle both 16-bit 
>and 32-bit transfers on the same channel as devices that only handle
>16-bit transfers; my understanding is that 16-bit-only devices may
>become confused by 32-bit transfers to the other device.

Unless you are talking about ATA66, which I know nothing about, I thought all
transfers from the IDE devices to the controller were 16-bit?

TTFN
Andy





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