Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 11:41:33 -0500 From: Kevin Havener <kevin.havener@afccc.af.mil> To: Mark J Tomko <mtomko@prime.cs.ohiou.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two hard drives, adding OS's Message-ID: <38C5313D.3C80C8F0@afccc.af.mil> References: <20000307110100.A371@prime.cs.ohiou.edu>
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I just put mine on the primary slave (I think, I have faulty memory, though). Yes, I believe thats it, on OS or another sees it as hdc. I have both a Linux and a FreeBSD installation on it. They both boot just fine. I think my rationale was that (or so I heard) read/write from channel to channel are faster than master to slave on the same IDE channel. Reasoning that since I do most all of my OS installs from CDROM I wanted to be able to do it slightly faster. So until I get another hard drive, my CDROM is alone on the secondary IDE channel. This could all be just hogwash, though. YMMV Kevin Mark J Tomko wrote: > > I've recently bought another hard drive, which I plan to use to play > around with FreeBSD 4.0 or Linux or HURD. I have an existing hard drive > which is the primary master drive. My ATAPI CDROM is currently my > secondary master drive. Because I need to be able to boot off of the > new hard drive, does it have to be a master drive? How should I arrange > them? > > Mark > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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