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Dave Plowman (News)  
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 More options 9 July, 11:16
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.hardware
From: "Dave Plowman (News)" <d...@davenoise.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:16:55 +0100
Local: Thurs 9 July 2009 11:16
Subject: Re: Unipod question
In article <slrnh4mu93.4r9.use...@greedy.zen175545>,
   Ollie Clark <use...@ollieclark.com> wrote:

> Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> > I have two HDs and two CDs - one a writer. Does it matter how they are
> > arranged on the Unipod? Ie both HDs on one circuit or share each with a
> > CD? And which should be master or slave?
> AIUI and IIRC, you should try to have devices that you're going to be
> copying data between on different channels (primary or secondary). So,
> if you write a lot of CDs from one HD to your writer, have the HD on
> primary and the writer on secondary.
> Other than that, I don't think it matters much. I tend to have HDs as
> master and optical drives as slave if I've got both on one channel.

I've rearranged things with one HD as master and one CD as slave on the
Unipod primary, one HD as master on the Unipod secondary, and the other CD
as master on the internal IDE buss. Now get an error message saying no
soft loaded driver for this CD - and the machine hangs at boot.

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    Dave Plowman        d...@davenoise.co.uk           London SW
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