Desperate situation

[Mike McCarty]

Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On 2/11/06, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> 
>>We had this same conversation some months back, with pretty much the same
>>staunch positions being advocated. I build lots of machines, that's part of
> 
> 
> Hmmm... I didn't participate in the previous thread, so I didn't voice
> my staunch position there:
> 
> Never EVER install a drive as a slave, unless you absolutely must do

This is a little strongly stated, but the advice is good.
The only slaves I have on my machines, when I can avoid it, is slow
devices which are rarely used, like CDROM drives.

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> Slaves are just too much trouble. Even when they seem to work, you can
> have silent data corruption that you don't notice until it's too late.

This I have not experienced.

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Mike
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