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To: E. Charters who wrote (138)	11/24/1998 8:26:00 AM
From: Judd	Read Replies (1) of 484

This is what mine looks like. The real device is hdd. The dev/cdrom is just easy to remember and it adds conformity to Linux so that programs can expect to find a cdrom there instead of hunting. And yes, if you link backwards then something is broken :) The install process should create /dev/hda - /dev/hdh. Thats because it is possible to have 4 IDE controllers on a system each with 2 drives, a master and a slave (8 drives). I have 4, but I have 2 disabled. Sometime I'm going to enable the other 2 just for fun. I have my swap file on a different drive on a different controller. This boosts performance a little, because only the slave, or the master can talk at any given time, but drives on separate controllers can simultaneously talk, so my system can be reading crap off of one drive and swapping it out to the other at the same time<G>. You could probably put the OS, and X on one controller and the apps on another one, or something. But, I've rambled on enough :) Judd

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