Greeting~
I'm currently trying to set up a dual disk, dual boot Win2k/NetBSD box and
am wondering what would be the best disk & partitioning arrangement given
the following hardware:

disk 1: Maxtor 7200 RPM - 30GB - Ultra ATA 100
disk 2: Quantum Fireball lct 15 (5000 RPM) - 15 GB - Ultra ATA 66
IDE Controllers: (2); Intel 82801AA Ultra ATA; dual FIFO
PCI Bus: 66Mhz
disk 3: ATAPI CDROM Drive
disk 4: ATAPI CD R/W Drive
RAM: 256MB PC100
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My thoughts were that, ideally, the following would work best:

disk 1: master ; primary controller ; system disk => part. 1 = Win2k ;
part.2 =*BSD
disk 3: slave ; primary controller
disk 2: slave ; 2nd cntrler ; users disk =>part.1 = "My Docs" ; part.2
="/usr" ; part.3 ="/var"
disk 4: slave ; secondary controller

Practically, it seems that trying to mix CD-ROM/CD-R/W & IDE drives on the
secondary controller causes problems (and perhaps irrelevant with dual FIFO
controllers?), so the next best thing might be:

disk 1: master ; primary controller ; system disk =>part. 1 = Win2k ; part.2
=*BSD
disk 2: slave    ;  "   ; users disk =>part.1= "My Docs" ; part.2 = "/usr";
part.3 ="/var"
disk 3: slave ; secondary controller
disk 4: slave ; secondary controller

I figure that its better to have the faster drive exclusively as the systems
disk, no?

I'm certainly no computer wiz and would appreciate any comments or
suggestions regarding this setup.

~beaker


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