Haste Makes Waste - Or Does It???

For me I know that windows xp does not being on the first partiton, no
matter where you put it... (your milage may vary) Have I told you guys
how much I wish that someone would put out a linux disk that was the
eqivilant of the recovery console? (Though I am sure there is one out
there..)

Bryce C wrote:

> Interesting. Maybe it must be primary, not secondary on a chain. I have
> grub remapping the drives so it thinks it's in the primary master
> instead of the slave that it is. :-D
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> Subject:
> Re: Haste Makes Waste - Or Does It???
> From:
> Rob Wultsch <robert.wultsch@asu.edu>
> Date:
> Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:28:03 -0700
> To:
> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
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> I ran my xp drive as hdc for a while without incident.
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> Bryce C wrote:
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>> 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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