For me I know that windows xp does not being on the first partiton, no matter where you put it... (your milage may vary) Have I told you guys how much I wish that someone would put out a linux disk that was the eqivilant of the recovery console? (Though I am sure there is one out there..) Bryce C wrote: > Interesting. Maybe it must be primary, not secondary on a chain. I have > grub remapping the drives so it thinks it's in the primary master > instead of the slave that it is. :-D > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: Haste Makes Waste - Or Does It??? > From: > Rob Wultsch > Date: > Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:28:03 -0700 > To: > plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > 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