ATA33 on ATA66 channel

[TheNemesis]

I currently have my hard drive on the master primary, CD-ROM on master secondary, and DVD-ROM on slave secondary. I recently purchased a CD-RW drive, and I want to set it at slave on the primary channel, but will this slow down the ATA66 hard drive?

 

[ziplux]

It's not usually a good idea to mix optical drives and hard drives if you can help it, but in this situation, you can't do anything about it short of buying another controler.

One thing....why are you keeping your CD-ROM? Both your CD-RW and DVD drive can handle CDs fine...if you replace your CD-ROM with the CD-RW, you'd keep the optical drives off of the hard drive's channel.

 

[Biggs]

Using a CD-ROM can lessen the stress on your DVD and RW when they're used to play ordinary cd's(i.e. prolongs the product's MTBF).

 

[MrCraphead]

Yes, it will slow down the drive when you're accessing both at the same time.

 

[CAMS]

Your motherboard supports independant device timing so all devices even on the same channel will attain there maxium speed.

However as ziplux said it is not good idea to mix optical drives and hard drives.

I see no point in having a DVD, CDRW & a CDROM. Toss the CDROM problem solved.