It doesn't seem to be what this article is about, but 25 years ago I needed to have a hdd and a cd writer on the same IDE cable and I couldn't get it to work wi

It doesn't seem to be what this article is about, but 25 years ago I needed to have a hdd and a cd writer on the same IDE cable and I couldn't get it to work without windows blue-screening. It forced me to switch to linux and I never switched back (except for work and various other annoyances).