Do 2 harddrives have to be Master/Slave?
I am about to install a Maxtor hard drive. I've read at one site that
Maxtor drives do not like to share with other hard drives on the same cable. Can I put the new drive as secondary master and still dual boot? |
oh yeah that'll be ok, i've never had probelms with maxtor drives complaining, just make sure you set the jumpers correctly.
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Do you mean it is OK to do Master/Slave or that it is OK to put new drive on secondary Master.
Randy |
It should work either way.
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well both, you should have no reason to have any trouble... put it on secondary slave if you want, should still boot fine.
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Can put on hd and a cd on one and the other hd on the other
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You can do almost anything u like regarding Master/Slave settings for Hard Disks.
However, from my experience it is highly UNrecommended that you set a Hard Disk to be a slave to a CD/DVD-ROM/R/RW. The performance of the disk will be somewhat under par. |
I always do things this way:
hda - primary master hard drive hdb - primary slave hard drive (if a second hd is there) hdc - cd/dvdrom hdd - cd burner (would be hdc if no cd/dvd rom is present) yes, it can be done other ways, but I have found this way best. I always use that configuration when building computers or upgrading my own and it works flawlessly. |
I ended up with Linux=PrimaryMaster, CD Rom=Primary Slave,
Windows=Secondary Master. However Linux isn't finding Windows as yet. I can't put my hard drives close enough to connect them together as Master/Slave. Linux is working fine however. I'm going exploring in the forums now. Thank You |
Windows should be on /dev/hdc1 then.
You will have to re-install grub and put the stanza for windows in your /boot/grub/grub.conf file. Installing a bootloader Multiboot with GRUB Mini-HOWTO |
Woudn't putting the two hard drives on Primary slow things down a bit?
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Widows is on hdc1
I tried something that I read in the forums. Installed Widows on primary hard drive then moved it to secondary master. Then put new hard drive as primary master and installed linux. Did I mess up there? |
You haven't messed up. Just install grubon the MBR of hda then change grub.conf to use hdc1 to chainload boot windows.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't throwing a CDrom/DVD/burner on the same cable as a hard drive cause the whole cable to run at DMA33 instead of 66/100/133 ? For that reason alone I keep my cd drives on the secondary chain.
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Thank You
acid_kewpie, fancypiper, Treat84, Azmeen, yowwww, and david_ross you have all been a help. However, david_ross, I can't figure out how to get to into grub.conf. And, fancypiper, I don't have any idea on how to reinstall grub. The CDs did everything pretty much automatically.They came with a LINUX for DUMMIES book and is referred to as a publishers edition.Also the boot floppy made during installation is no good, I've tried using a command line applet in Linux but nothing happens. I appreciate your help and patience. RAL |
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