Best way to hook up hard drives?

[pcman83]

Hello,

I have just got a 160gb maxtor 8mb 7200rpm and i have 3 other 60gb drives. My board currently doesnt support the large lba support and i needed more room so i bought a controller card. My question is should i just hook all the drives up to the controller. Or put two on the controller and one with each of my cdroms. Or just do what i was thinking that was to put all drives on the controller and have the cdroms each on their seperate channel.

Let me know.

 

[Cerb]

I'd put the OS and swap file HD on its own channel.
Beyond that, it won't make a difference.

 

[Zepper]

Assuming all the drives are capable of UATA/UDMA operation, I would put each of the HDs on its own channel and put the CDs where they are most likely to be on a different channel from the software that will be accessing them. Any that can't do UDMA need to be on their own channel.
.bh.