From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: CDROM boot failed, how can i do?
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 09:02:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <toCdnRmeTu6vdLSiU-KYvg@comcast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0307311821540.15683-100000@einstein.ssz.com>
Jim Choate wrote:
> ... I'd say -never-
> put your CD drive as a slave on a EIDE (or IDE for that matter), unless
> you're sure you'll -never- want to boot from it.
There shouldn't be any problem booting from any IDE position.
There can be a significant loss of throughput if the faster
of the two devices on a slot is not the master.
I must say that the whole "PC" disk/boot/partition
situation is one of the ugliest messes I've seen in
my 40 years of computing. *The* major contributor to
this is the rush to market with "any old solution" no
matter how short-sighted, leading to kludge upon
kludge as newer developments outgrow the older,
unnecessary, limitations of the interface designs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-01 9:02 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0307310642350.15683-100000@einstein.ssz.com>
2003-07-31 12:07 ` [9fans] " River He
2003-07-31 13:51 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-07-31 23:28 ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2003-08-01 9:02 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2003-08-01 11:37 ` Jim Choate
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