From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: , Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: CDROM boot failed, how can i do? Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 09:02:37 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0e86f3de-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.