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Best drive arrangement for my mobo (Soyo Dragon+)

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Evoluter

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I'm putting together a new computer and i a soyo dragon plus(kt266a). I have 3 drives; maxtor HD, pioneer dvd, and a teac burner. My mobo has 2 IDE channels and 2 more for raid.

What is the best arrangement to use for these 3 drives?

Could I possibly use my raid channels as normal IDE channels and put the hard drive on one of them, using the first two as channels for the 2 optical drives, running them as master on each?

If I do use my hard drive as master on channel 1, and I put the two optical drives on my second channel, which should be set as master? I will be watching movies on the DVD drive and it will also be the primary optical media drive, however I'm not sure if the burner should be set as a slave due to the resources burners seem to use.

I know thats a lot but I would appreciate some good experienced advice. Thanks.
 
I think the way to do it is to have the hard drive as master on the primary channel and your DVD drive as the slave on the primary channel. The CD-RW should be the master on the secondary channel (that's what was suggested in Maximum PC, where they built a PC using the same motherboard). Hope this helps.
 
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