CDROM AND CDRW ON THE SAME IDE WHAT IS THE MASTER

[kempo]

HI all
i am putting a cdrom and a rw on the same ide cable what would you say should be the master and what should be the salve drive
thanks in advance
kempo

 

[Shagga]

CDRW should be your Master.

 

[bacillus]

Originally posted by: Shagga
CDRW should be your Master.

me bows in respect!

 

[kempo]

hi guys thanks for the help and btw this mobo has raid and i have 2x40gig maxtors in the system with 512 of 2100 ddr but i dont use the raid as i use 1 of the maxtors for backup hence having them on ide 1 now some 1 told me that i can run a hd from the raid slot acting as an ide with out enabeling the raid controller not sure if this is true as i do need the other drive as backup i supose if i had 3 hard drives i could use raid then and that would free up the ide 1 and 2 for the rom drives but i havent got 3 hd's so could i run 1 hd (master system drive) from the raid slot on its own or would this mess things up ..

 

[Trader05]

I use Reader Master> CDRW Slave...works fine, i don't think it matters

 

[LED]

Most HD's will work as a single device via the RAID port but few Opticals do.

 

[kempo]

so if i use the raid port for my main hd then i could seperate the cd and rw on to there own ide's then eh, its a thaught