Haste Makes Waste - Or Does It???

I ran my xp drive as hdc for a while without incident.

Bryce C wrote:

> Don't know but, I do know that WinXP will puke its brains out if it's
> not on the first hd. Bad experience. And people wonder why I charge more
> for winBLOWS servicing?
>
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> Subject:
> Haste Makes Waste - Or Does It???
> From:
> George Gambill <ggambill@computer-guidance.com>
> Date:
> Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:42:49 -0700
> To:
> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
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> 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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