[AktiviX] Hard disks

[j.martin.pedersen]

the best configuration is the one that works in the specific case ;)

just avoid having the gnu/linux system as a slave, for reasons of speed,
i'd say.

i beleive the rule of thumb is that both gnu/linux and windows wants to
be on a _primary partition_ (as opposed to a logical drive) in order to
boot, but this might depend also on which booter you use, i suspect.

if it works it works.

also you can be pedantic and do stuff like having your swap partition in
the beginning of the drive to increase access speed, but this is only an
issue if you have little RAM, etc etc etc etc.

if you often copy from cd to cd (music etc.) then it is best to avoid
having those two cd-drives on the same IDE channel if you want to
optimise speed of the copying process. again this is pedantic and
certainly no longer an issue of you have a burn-proof style cd-writer.

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On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 21:02, Doug Paulley wrote:
> Following on from the Hardware workshop. If a PC has an 8Gb drive with one bootable Windows partition on it, one 40Gb with one 20Gb Windows data and a bootable Linux distro in rest, one 16x CD-ROM and one fast CD burner and DVD reader, what configuration would be best in terms of primary master etc?
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