From:	"Mike Petrie" <mpetrie AT brunet DOT bn>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>, <raygr AT es DOT co DOT nz>
Subject:	Re: Mitsumi CD-ROM & TaskMgr
Date:	Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:33:49 +0800
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Ray Greene Mon, 08 Feb 1999

>> At 11:13 PM 06-02-99 -0800, you wrote:
>> You might try switching the zip to the first ide and put the cd on the
>> second ide. I haven't used a zip drive before but all my cd drives
>> instructions suggest the cd on second ide and the cd lines in config.sys
>> and autoexec.bat as the last command.
>
> OK, I'll try that. Now that you mention it I seem to recall reading
> something about running a CD-ROM off the second IDE. The new CD-ROM was a
> cheap OEM jobbie with no instructions unfortunately.
> I may need to make up a new data cable to get it to fit. Bummer...

From what I remember this is because the IDE bus will only run at the speed
of the slowest device attached to it, so you want to keep your HDD and
CD/Zip separate if possible.

Mike Petrie

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