Re: Strange Boot Behavior (cont.)

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

At 08:22 AM 8/22/2003 -0700, Christopher Swope wrote:
[...]
>Not that new that the former, but fairly new to the latter.  I just
>thought it was considered somewhat rude to reply to someone off-list.

It usually is ... though as with almost anything involving courtesy issues, 
some people probably feel differently.

The reason why this list (and many others) does not use Reply-to: to 
redirect to the list is more technical than that. I haven't looked at this 
issue in years, so I no longer trust my memory of the idetails well enough 
to try to discuss them. Do a Google search on "reply-to munging evil" and 
you will probably find the sites set up by the people who feel strongly 
about this issue.

[...]
> > Have you tried putting the old drive on the Secondary IDE channel?
> > (In
> > practice, this workaround may be your best bet.)
>
>I didn't.  Can one put a hard drive and CDROM on the same channel?  I
>thought that that was not advised.

Well, I don't know what information source you are referring to, but I know 
of no problem with doing this, either in theory or in practice ... I do it 
myself here. There can be timing problems with CD *writing* if you put a CD 
*burner* on the same channel as a hard disk, *AND* you try to burn an iso 
image from that hard disk. But even that isn't a sure problem, just a risk.



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