I ran my xp drive as hdc for a while without incident. Bryce C wrote: > Don't know but, I do know that WinXP will puke its brains out if it's > not on the first hd. Bad experience. And people wonder why I charge more > for winBLOWS servicing? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Haste Makes Waste - Or Does It??? > From: > George Gambill > Date: > Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:42:49 -0700 > To: > plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > I read somewhere that if you have a slower (ATA33) CDROM as the second > (slave) of the same IDE controller that your higher speed IDE hard drive > (ATA100/133) is connected to, that the hard drive will run at the slower > (ATA33) speed . > > Not wanting to risk this, I bought a second cable to move the CDROM to the > second IDE controller. However, in my haste, I moved the hard drive (HDA) > to the second controller making it HDC. Everything seemed to boot well > except for an error message (failed) about swapon: and /dev/hda3 not > existing, which figures. > > I went into fstab and pointed swap to /dev/hdc3 and life is good. My > question: Is there any advantage having the hard drive plugged into the > first IDE connection making it hda??? > > Thanks > > George > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Robert Wultsch // \\ robert.wultsch@asu.edu Linux User /( )\ AIM:sheepsleep7 Don't fear the penguins ^^-^^ (602)6927564