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ATA CDRom HDD

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GoatHerderEd

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I remember hearing that you dont want to hook a CDrom up to the same IDE channel as a HDD because the HDD will throttle back to the CDroms ATA33 standard making the HDD slow. Is this true? Are there any sites that descibe this?
 
Nope not true anymore put a cd drive with a hard drive and bench then take cd off. HD will score about the same. Won't be ata-33 speed scores. You could set the drive to ata-33 speed and see the difference.
Can use HDtach for a quick test

Think its because of ide busmastering
 
i think the only thing you have to be worried about is if you hook like a cdrw to the second port on a ide cable with a slower cdrom on the first port. i remember someone telling me about this somewhere.
 
Hooking up a cd and cdrw on the same channel you can't burn on the fly. Can't put a disk in the cd and copy direct to the cdrw.
 
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