4 ide devices 2 ide controllers, what order ?

[griffin]

Ok, I have 2 Hard Drives and 2 cd devices. What order should they be connected to each controller ?

Ide 1 - System drive, cd
Ide 2 - 2nd drive, dvd

or other. I will be capturing video to the 2nd drive so it needs to be as fast as possible.

Thanks,

griffin

 

[JC]

IMHO, you've got the right idea.

JC

 

[BD231]

With an ATA-100+ controller it wouldn't make a difference

 

[JC]

<< With an ATA-100+ controller it wouldn't make a difference >>



How about some elaboration? Devices on the same channel still have to share a cable.

 

[griffin]

would i be better off buying a ultra 100 pci card so every device has it's own channel ? Sounds good to me, but is it overkill ? My mainboard is already ultra 100 speed.

 

[dunkster]

What bdog231 said.

Go to NewEgg. Search with phrase 'ide card'.

NewEgg offers a Promise IDE adapter card for $23. These are PCI plug-in cards that provide two additional dedicated IDE ports for ATA 33/66/100 IDE devices.

All of your devices can be connected to a dedicated IDE port for maximum efficiency when writing to any device from any other device. No need to configure IDE devices as master/salve configurations, since each device is a master on it's own dedicated IDE port.

Hope this helps!

 

[CraigRT]

I think you're set-up just fine.

 

[JC]

<< would i be better off buying a ultra 100 pci card so every device has it's own channel ? Sounds good to me, but is it overkill ? My mainboard is already ultra 100 speed. >>



Yes, that's overkill unless you're copying from one of the slaves to a master.....if your data is coming from a vid-capture card, an extra controller card will just waste a PCI slot and
some of your money. Your current setup will work fine.

JC