both hard drives on same IDE channel?

[deras]

I have 2 hard drives, a cd burner and a cd-rom, what is the best IDE arrangement for them.... both drives on one ide channel, and the cd drives on another. Or one hard drive on each ide channel as masters, and the cd drives as slaves... anyone know the optimal arrangement and why?

thanks.....

 

[nicowju]

How fast is your computer? On my main rig, I put the CDRW and the DVD drive on the same channel, with the CDRW as master and DVD as slave, since it can handle it and the CDRW has burnproof. No problems doing CD to CD copies.

 

[Avalanche007]

It depends what your doing. Basically if you have one OS drive and the other Hard drive is your applications drive you want both hard drives to be master so it has the full system resources available to it. If the second drive is just storage, for your porn and stuff have that drive slaved is not going to cause any noticeable performance losses. But since you say you have a burner, usually they work best as master (My old creative didnt like slave setting). But there is one way to test this... slave your burner and burn something at full speed and see if your cd rom can read it (test it on older cd roms too if possible) and if you get no errors or problems copying the CD's contents then its fine...

If your second hard drive is just storage I would slave it with my Master Hard drive on the Primary IDE slot, and on the Second IDE bus set the Burner as Master and the cdrom as slave.

If your second hard drive is an Applications drive I would set ti to master on my secondary IDE channel along with the burner (if that works like i said) and set my Boot hard drive as master on your Primary IDE channel with the cdrom. I wouldnt put hte cdrw on the same IDE channel as the Boot Drive becasue the Burner takes up slightly more of the bus than a CD Rom.

 

[ukDave]

you want IMO:

IDE1: hdd1,hdd2
IDE2: cd,dvd,cdrw etc.

if you mix IDE1 with one hard drive and one cd drive you will severly impact the drives performance, becuase the controller has to run at the speed of the slowest drive - i.e. a UDMA 33 cd drive.

dave

 

[deras]

its a power computer 1.2 ghz...

I have heard that if you have a hard drive and CD on the same channel the drive is limited to the speed of the CD but that does not make sense to me... please explain why that is...

 

[ukDave]

i have read it many times. some techno bable explains it but just take my word for it. soz i could not give a more precise explaination.

dave

 

[Budman]

<< if you mix IDE1 with one hard drive and one cd drive you will severly impact the drives performance, becuase the controller has to run at the speed of the slowest drive - i.e. a UDMA 33 cd drive. >>



That statement is simply not true anymore,as long as there's an ata66(100) cable used the drive will run at max speed even if there's a slower cd drive connected slave to it.