Re: install sloooow doooown

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:36:56PM -0800, John wrote:
> Learning the hard way is my weapon of choice.  Its gonna cost a lot of
> beer around here  I can tell.    
> 
> Is it really common knowledge that having two hard drives on the same
> IDE results in such a performance hit?  This is pretty severe slow
> down....... trying to imagine what the installer was doing that would
> result in so much confusion on the IDE bus.  I have to assume that
> 'normal' linux operation can accommodate a slave IDW hard drive.  It
> must be the installer with command files on one partition/drive
> directing packages off the cd onto the 2nd partition/drive.... killed me
> 
> 
> Anyway it doesn't matter I took the small drive out and the install
> succeeded.  I am a newbie using O'Rielys 'Learning Red Hat' as my
> 'blind' guide. 
> 
> But tell me.   Should I rip out those IDE slave hard drive from XP
> before or after I leave the beer at the door step....   hehe   just
> kiddn.   Thanks for helping me get my shell back.   Im happy
> 
> 
> cheers 
> 
> John
> 
I have never had this problem with two disks on the same IDE
controller.

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