A HDD, a CD-ROM and a new burner - what's the best IDE channel setup?

[yllus]

Hey guys. I'm picking up a Lite-ON LTR12101R 12x/10x/32x burner later tonight and wondering: my current primary IDE controller setup is with the HDD on master and CD-ROM on slave, per normal.

Now if I was to put the burner as master on the secondary IDE channel, would I get better/worse performance out of anything? I'm going to be doing HDD to CD-RW drive burns 99% of the time and would like to optimize that connection. Any thoughts?

 

[gopunk]

my config is: hdd - primary master, dvd-rom - secondary master, cd-rw - secondary slave.

i had the dvd-rom and the cd-rw switched, so that the dvd was the slave and the cd-rw was the master, but i found that ripping speed (when ripping dvds) was greatly reduced, so i switched and all was good.

 

[lilnnjaboy]

your ideal setup is to keep the burner on a seperate channel from the harddrive and the CD-Rom. If you never plan to do on the fly burning, then you can keep the cd-rom and burner on the same channel. I have my harddrives running on a seperate controller card, and on the motherboard running the cd and burner.

 

[gopunk]

yea can you give more info on the separate controller part? i don't know too much about that.

you can still do dvd-rom to cd-rw copies, it'll just take longer because it has to write to memory first.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

If you do a lot of CD ripping from your CD-ROM, and don't do on the fly burning, then put the CD-ROM on the same channel as the CD-RW. If you want to do a lot of on-the-fly burning and not so much CD ripping from the CD-ROM, then put the CD-ROM on the primary channel with the hard drive. Basically, put the burner on the secondary IDE channel and put the CD-ROM opposite of wherever it will be writing to most of the time.

 

[StrangeRanger]

Me, hd=prim master, cd-rom=prim slave, cdrw=sec. master. Also, take a look at the literature that comes with your cdrw. Most makers will suggest the best set-up for you.
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[MrBond]

As far as a seperate controller goes, some people buy controller cards for their PC's that allow the use of more then 4 drives. My board has it built right in, so I have factory support for 8 drives. In your case, as long as the burner and reader are on seperate channels, all will be well.

 

[Bagheera]

Mr.Bond, what kind of motherboard do you have? I have been looking for a motherboard that support more than 4 IDE devices.

 

[tigerbait]

bagheera, just look for any raid motherboard. You can disable the raid and just use the extra IDE channels.

 

[Pabster]

Alternatively, you could switch to SCSI and avoid all those master/slave configuration hassles

 

[gopunk]

<< As far as a seperate controller goes, some people buy controller cards for their PC's that allow the use of more then 4 drives. My board has it built right in, so I have factory support for 8 drives. In your case, as long as the burner and reader are on seperate channels, all will be well. >>


so if i don't have it built in, where would these controller cards be plugged in? into the existing ide slots?