From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
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Subject: Re: ATAPI + cdwriter problem
To: B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:26:23 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0207091218350.6859-100000@mion.elka.pw.edu.pl> from "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" at Jul 09, 2002 12:22:59 PM
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Hi,

> Dont punish performance and do not connect drives on the same channel
> if you can, the same goes for cd and cdrw (if cd -> cdrw of course)...

I don't think he's got much choice with all those devices :-)

> Also there was some problem recently with running 2 ATAPI devices on the
> same channel.

I generally prefer to use EIDE for hard disks, and SCSI for other peripherals, (and disks which are for, e.g. databases, but certainly not for boot disks, or general usage disks).

I tend to find 'silly' problems occuring with ATAPI devices, such as a motherboard/ATAPI CD-ROM drive combination that would never boot from the CD, because the BIOS reset the bus just before booting, and the CD-ROM would respond 'not ready'.  Generally SCSI peripherals tend to have a bit more thought put in to their design.

John.
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