IDE cable question

[Johnbear007]

If I have 1 hard drive and 1 CD burner

Should I put the hard drive as master and the cd rom as slave on one cable

or Give them each their own IDE channel?

will this make any difference?

 

[mbackof]

I would put them each as master on their own cables. Put the hard drive on the primary and the CD-ROM on the secondary. It will help a little on CD to HD copies.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: mbackof
I would put them each as master on their own cables. Put the hard drive on the primary and the CD-ROM on the secondary. It will help a little on CD to HD copies.

How significant will it be though? I wanted to use 1 cable to minimize case clutter.

 

[EeyoreX]

It will really be insignificant unless the CD drive operates in PIO mode. If the optical drive operates in any form of DMA mode, you will be fine

\Dan

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: Johnbear007

Originally posted by: mbackof
I would put them each as master on their own cables. Put the hard drive on the primary and the CD-ROM on the secondary. It will help a little on CD to HD copies.

How significant will it be though? I wanted to use 1 cable to minimize case clutter.

I'm running 1 HDD on IDE 0 and one optical drive on IDE 1 in this case. No clutter there.

 

[dalfollo]

Yes, that is one clean case...very clean.

 

[Bad Dude]

That looks like the Antec SLK3700AMB case. Where did you put those extra cables from the PSU? I tried to make my case look neat but I cannot. Cables are everywhere. It looks like you sleeve the PSU?