Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Barry Flanagan wrote:
>>>>disks to be non-raid, so they show up as good old hda and hdb (or
>>better yet put them on different IDE ports so they show up as hda
>>and hdc - why it is not done that way by default is beyond me).
>>> Why does it matter whether they appear on hda/hdb or hda/hdc?
>> regards,
I think what he's getting at is it would be better to have each hard disk on a
seperate IDE channel and he's right, so long as you don't for example have a
CDROM on the same cable as a hard disk[1]
[1] a Big no-no
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