Or just buy another IDE controller.
e.g. A nice ATA66 controller.
And put exevything on it own bus.
MArk
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Rick Moen wrote:
> begin Fergal Moran quotation:
>> > So - as a matter of interest - what would be the ideal configuration
> > of a machine with 2 hard disks -
>> SCSI. ;->
>> > a cd reader and a cd writer and 2 IDE channels - should it be hda * cdr on
> > one channel and hdb and cdrw on another - or some other way?
>> Ah, well, there, you have to pick your poison. If you put the two ATA
> hard drives on one chain, and the APAPI CDR alone on the other, you gain
> concurrency between the CDR and either hard drive, but lose it between
> the two hard drives. That'd be a bummer, as to overall machine
> performance.
>> Alternatively, you make sure the ATAPI drive was on a chain different
> from that of the hard drive you want _it_ to be concurrently accessible
> with. Pick one of the two hard drives for that purpose, and make sure
> it contains all files even remotely likely to be accessed during CD
> burns.
>> Either of those situations sounds depressing to me. Me, I just use
> SCSI. Seriously.
>>
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