Re: Help installing Fedora

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/12/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 22:54:51 -0500

"noone" <noone@noone.org> wrote in message
news:btqbkc$d8p$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...

> Because you said 'I have seen no "multiple people"'.
>
> William is right ... you made a statement without citing any source to
> backup your statement. It is not ours to disprove your statement ... it
> is yours to prove it.
>
> What you are saying is like:
>
> "Peter Breuer is stupid. It is up to other people to disprove that".

No need, Peter provides so much of his own proof.

In any case, the idea that CDROM and CD-R/RW drives must be in a
master/slave relationship is just *silly*. I say this as someone who tests a
lot of hardware in a lot of weird configurations.

There's a potential performance benefit to putting them on separate IDE
controllers when duplicating from CDROM->CD-R/RW. There's a convenience
benefit if you always put your CDROM drive first on your list of IDE
controllers and masters/slaves, so that it shows up as /dev/cdrom in the
typical auto-configuration widgets on recent Linux distributions, and
they're typically faster than CD-R/RW drives for doing any kind of reading
so you really *do* want to use them by preference.

But this is just device ordering for user convenience, not for some strange
master/slave benefit.