fc5 slow promary master idecd

[Kam Leo]

On 7/27/06, Randolph Jones <jonesrf1 at qwest.net> wrote:
> I have been running fc5 for some months with no problem
> last week or so getting sloow boot and slow desktop
> now takes about 5 min to boot to desktop
> bios check shows primary master is idecd/dvd (dont know when this happened)
> I recently installed xprint and updated gtk2
> there is a dir /net that I dont recognize
> I have amd64 on msi k8n neo4 1 gig ram 20 gig + 80 gig ide drives + cd/dvdrw
> below is system output
> Any help would really be appreciated
> IA
> rfjones
> Linux 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
> /dev/hdc1 on / type ext3 (rw)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> /dev/hdc3 on /home type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hdd2 on /opt type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hdd1 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hdc2 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
>

Have you tried switching the cables over to the other connector, i.e.
plug the CD/DVD drives into the secondary connector and vice-versa? Of
course, you will also have to edit /etc/fstab to reflect the change,
i.e. hdc will/should become hda and hdd will be hdb.