I don't believe modern IDE controllers suffer the problem of limitting performance to that of the master. I have had boards show UDMA66 hard drives as slaves to UDMA33 DVD-ROM drives. Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: Nathan Davis To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Dual boot - different Hard drives? Unless you are going to access data frequently from the Windows 2000 drive, I personally make the Linux drive slave on the same controller because you will only be accessing one disk at a time. That way, you can put a CD-ROM or whatever on the secondary controller without any performance loss. "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: Yes. Install Windows 2000 first and then install Redhat. You will probably do best having the Redhat drive as a slave to the primary Windows 2000 drive or have each drive be master on individual IDE controllers. Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From:Randy Clarksean To: tclug Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 8:29 AM Subject: [TCLUG] Dual boot - different Hard drives? A relative newbie request ... I am putting together a new AMD box and I want it to be dual boot: Win2000 and RH7.2 for software development and work purposes. I will have two 40 GB hard drives ... is it possible to have each operating system installed on different drives? I know you can dual boot and I am assuming I can put each OS on separate drives .. but I thought I would ask before struggling with it. Many thanks in advance! Randy Clarksean Leading Technology Designs, Inc. 106 North Boardman Ave. P.O. Box N New York Mills, MN 56567 "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ph: 218-385-3750 fax:218-385-3751 email: rclark at lakesplus.com _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020807/c7e4c55b/attachment.htm