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From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@yahoo.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: cdrom and cdrw
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:28:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006401c1d515$908131a0$01213e18@mycomputer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020326161633.A2174@uic.edu>

Hi Greg. The floppy drive is slaved to the hard disk and the hd is primary master, the floppy is primary slave. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1@uic.edu>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: cdrom and cdrw


> Now, how can you have a floppy and hard drive on the same controller?
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:35:16PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi Cheryl. Is the cdrw drive a scsi drive? Because if it is an atapi/ide drive, here's my set up. My hd and floppy drive are on one ide controller, and the Cdrom and Cdrw are on another controller. The cdrw is slaved to the Cdrom I believe. I haven't checked the wiring, so this could be wrong. But if you were to set it up that way, I suppose it would probably work. Also, is your cdrom a scsi drive? 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@chartermi.net>
> > To: speakup <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:52 AM
> > Subject: cdrom and cdrw
> > 
> > 
> > > I'm a little confused even after reading all the docs so I could use some help
> > > here.
> > > I have an ide/atapi cdrom, which I have loaded as scsi because i'm getting ready
> > > to get a cdrw in addition to the cdrom. Here are my questions:
> > > 1. Does placement of the cdrw and cdrom matter. The person installing wants to
> > > put them on separate ides as he says this can make the cdrw slightly faster.
> > > this means that one of them has to be hdb and the other has to be hdc or hdd (I
> > > would think hdc). Is it better to put the cdrw as single or primary and let the
> > > cdrom be the slave on my first ide?
> > > 2. Does this mean that i set up both the cdrom and the cdrw as scsi? I think I
> > > read that if you compile both scsi and atap/ide into the kernel the atapi/ide
> > > will take over which I don't want for the cdrw for sure.
> > > 3. If both are to be scsi, should my cdrw be scd0 and my cdrom scd1 or does this
> > > matter?
> > > 4. What symlinks do I do? Right now I have /dev/cdrom linked to scd0, but is
> > > this where the cdrw should be linked? Do I make an additional directory and
> > > mount point so that both can be mounte?
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > 
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Cheryl Homiak
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Kerry Hoath
     ` Gregory Nowak
 ` Janina Sajka
 ` Kerry Hoath
   ` Cheryl Homiak
     ` Kerry Hoath
 ` Igor Gueths
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Igor Gueths [this message]
       ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Kerry Hoath
       ` Gregory Nowak

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