Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 1999 09:46:44 -0500 | From | Chuck Campbell <> | Subject | Multiple ide DVD/CD devices question |
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I'm picking up a machine this afternoon, and it comes with a DVD drive.
My understanding is that there are no drivers for these as of yet. I will need to install linux from my RH5.2 CD, so I am going to buy a CD-RW drive at the same time (I think).
Questions:
1)will the machine be happy under Linux with both devices in place? (It will be a quad boot, Linux, NT, Win98, Solaris) 2)are there any experimental/developmental drivers for the DVD? 3)do CD-RW devices work like CD for the purpose I stated above, or should I buy a plain CD device? 4)I need to add another disk for all these OSes. I assume 2 HD's and one DVD and one CD are all going to live happily here. Which devices need to be primary? I assume the HD's need to be if I want to boot from them?
thanks, -chuck
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