On some mobo the first ide channel is faster/better/whatever than the 
second, at this point however having a hard drive run at 66 should not 
slow it down all that much as the bottleneck is in the hd. if so there 
then the two are usally different colors.

This is my understanding and I can not be 100% sure that it is correct.

George Gambill wrote:
> I read somewhere that if you have a slower (ATA33) CDROM as the second
> (slave) of the same IDE controller that your higher speed IDE hard drive
> (ATA100/133) is connected to, that the hard drive will run at the slower
> (ATA33) speed .
> 
> Not wanting to risk this, I bought a second cable to move the CDROM to the
> second IDE controller.  However, in my haste, I moved the hard drive (HDA)
> to the second controller making it HDC.  Everything seemed to boot well
> except for an error message (failed) about swapon: and /dev/hda3 not
> existing, which figures.
> 
> I went into fstab and pointed swap to /dev/hdc3 and life is good.  My
> question:  Is there any advantage having the hard drive plugged into the
> first IDE connection making it hda???
> 
> Thanks
> 
> George
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