Re: cd rom and 32 bit access

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From: Rajesh Varia
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <PtPdCBAogocxEwfW@tankgirl.demon.co.uk>, Dave Kelso
<dave@tankgirl.demon.co.uk> writes
>>Basically, you will need to put your CD-ROM drive on a secondary channel
>>as it is stopping 32-bit access for the HDD on the primary channel.  You
>>can leave it were it is, but you will lose out on speed for the HDD.
>>
>>
>There are two connectors on the EIDE card, the hard drive is on one, the
>cd on the other. Is this what you mean by seperate channels? (apologies
>for me being thick).

If you have the CD-ROM drive on the other connector already, then you
should have both drives configured as primary devices.

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Rajesh Varia     raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk

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