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In article <4ep05j$jcu@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au>, jag80@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au (Green Anthony John) writes:
|> The main problem was the way the cd-rom talked to the ide controller through
|> the damn soundcard ... heres wot dmesg looks like now =)
|> 
|> hda: Maxtor 7850 AR, 814MB w/64KB Cache, LBA, CHS=827/32/63, MaxMult=8
|> hdb: Maxtor 71260 AT, 1204MB w/256KB Cache, LBA, CHS=612/64/63, MaxMult=16
|> hdc: WDC AC31600H, 1549MB w/128KB Cache, LBA, CHS=3148/16/63, MaxMult=16
|> hdd: MATSHITA CR-574, ATAPI, CDROM drive
|> ide1: secondary interface on irq 15
|> ide0: primary interface on irq 14
|> 
|> looks alot better now :)

Bear in mind that the speed of an (E)IDE channel is bound by the speed of the
slower device. In your setup, the access to the WD drive will be not much faster
than to the CD-ROM (600KB/s). You can check it using hdparm.

I would recommend that you either:

1. Put in a third ide controller (but configure them all properly) and put the
CD-ROM there.

2. Exchange hda and hdc, as hdc should be considerably faster than hda.

3. Upgrade to SCSI (just kidding...)

Cheers,
-- 
Atanas Parashkevov,
PhD student