I was referring to being able to access both devices simultaneously. If you will only access one hard drive at a time (under normal circumstances), then you may as well put the CD-ROM drive on the other IDE channel so that you can read from CD and access harddrive at the same time. "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: > I don't believe modern IDE controllers suffer the problem of > limitting performance to that of the master. I have had boards show > UDMA66 hard drives as slaves to UDMA33 DVD-ROM drives. Tom Veldhouse > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nathan Davis > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 11:39 AM > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Dual boot - different Hard drives? > Unless you are going to access data frequently from the > Windows 2000 drive, I personally make the Linux drive slave > on the same controller because you will only be accessing > one disk at a time. That way, you can put a CD-ROM or > whatever on the secondary controller without any performance > loss. > > "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: > > > Yes. Install Windows 2000 first and then install Redhat. > > You will probably do best having the Redhat drive as a > > slave to the primary Windows 2000 drive or have each drive > > be master on individual IDE controllers. Tom Veldhouse > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From:Randy Clarksean > > To: tclug > > Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 8:29 AM > > Subject: [TCLUG] Dual boot - different Hard > > drives? > > A relative newbie request ... I am putting > > together a new AMD box and I want it to be dual > > boot: Win2000 and RH7.2 for software > > development and work purposes. I will have two > > 40 GB hard drives ... is it possible to have > > each operating system installed on different > > drives? I know you can dual boot and I am > > assuming I can put each OS on separate drives .. > > but I thought I would ask before struggling with > > it. Many thanks in advance! Randy Clarksean > > Leading Technology Designs, Inc. > > 106 North Boardman Ave. > > P.O. Box N > > New York Mills, MN 56567 "Nothing astonishes > > men so much as common sense and plain dealing." > > - Ralph Waldo Emerson ph: 218-385-3750 > > fax:218-385-3751 > > email: rclark at lakesplus.com > > > _______________________________________________ Twin Cities > Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020807/c44dc35d/attachment.html