Re: Erratic mounting of CD

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From: George Durbridge
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 00:00

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Andrew Matherl (amsm@deakin.edu.au) wrote:
: G'day All,
: 
: I wonder if anyone else has had this trouble with IDE CD drives.
: It's not a huge problem, but one of those niggly frustrating ones.
: 
: This is happening on 2 different machines, using Slackware 3.0 and a
: custom kernel.  Both machines have Creative Labs 8X CD's, running as
: master units on the secondary IDE controller on the I/O card (having
: moved them off the soundcard).

IDE cdrom's don't always work reliably as masters.  Can you make them 
slaves on the primary channel, moving your second hard disk (if you have 
one) to the primary channel ?  That should not slow down your first hd - 
it seems to be an urban myth that a hd sharing an adapter with a 
cdrom will be slowed down to the speed of the cdrom.

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From: gdurb@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au (George Durbridge)
Subject: Re: Erratic mounting of CD
Date: 1996/11/24
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