From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 10:20:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from janus.afccc.af.mil (janus.afccc.af.mil [209.22.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7920537C145 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 10:20:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin.havener@afccc.af.mil) Received: from janus.afccc.af.mil (root@localhost) by janus.afccc.af.mil with ESMTP id SAA29688; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:20:43 GMT Received: from thor.afccc.af.mil (thor.afccc.af.mil [209.22.31.24]) by janus.afccc.af.mil with ESMTP id SAA29684; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:20:43 GMT Received: from afccc.af.mil (olasun7.afccc.af.mil [209.22.31.56]) by thor.afccc.af.mil with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id 1P8NSSQ1; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:17:10 -0500 Message-ID: <38C5483B.3DF5139A@afccc.af.mil> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:19:39 -0500 From: Kevin Havener X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gunnut@2ainfo.it Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two hard drives, adding OS's References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG filippo moretti wrote: > > On 07-Mar-00 Kevin Havener wrote: > > 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. > hdc is the master on the second IDE bus hdb would be the slave Doh, what was I thinking?! If I had just read what I typed, I could have figured it out. > > 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. Here's where I got in trouble. hdc is a big drive. I was thinking that I wouldn't have much need to write from the hdb (CDROM) to hda (small drive) and that I might want to write from the big drive to the small one. Good thing it worked. Who knows what kind of trouble I would have had fixing it! I'd rather be lucky than good. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message