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to: Jean Parrot
from: Andy Ball
date: 2003-06-12 21:00:10
subject: IDE twins.

Hello Jean,

  JP> I got back into the box here to change all this to the HDs on
    > one IDE and the CDs on tother because all were suggesting that
    > it was the way to have it when before I had it the way you now
    > suggest.   Strange !

People may have suggested that because the hard disks are ATA, where the
CD-ROM,R,R/W are ATAPI.  I know of at least one operating system that
refuses to run both protocols on the same IDE channel.  There may also be a
performance consideration.  I prefer SCSI anyway.

- Andy Ball

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