Is It Possible To Run A Hard Drive As The Slave To A CD-R/RW Drive?

[BlameTheBigBang]

I'm having problems running an SATA hard drive and a normal IDE hard drive at the same time with the SATA drive being the boot drive. Is there any way that I could run the IDE hard drive as a slave to my CD-R/RW drive? And would that help?

 

[Budman]

yes it can be done.

 

[HannibalX]

Yeah just set the jumper on the CDR to Master and the jumper on the HD to slave. Put them on the same channel. In your Bios settings set the boot device to the hard drive, or drive 2, option 2, etc (different from motherboard to motherboard).

 

[Ionizer86]

I think that if you have an HDD and a CDRW share a channel, you may lose the advantage of ATA66/100/133 though.

CD Roms and stuff use ATA33, and almost all new drives are getting more than 33MB/s across the channel. Most drives read at 50+ MB/s according to storagereviews.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
I think that if you have an HDD and a CDRW share a channel, you may lose the advantage of ATA66/100/133 though.

CD Roms and stuff use ATA33, and almost all new drives are getting more than 33MB/s across the channel. Most drives read at 50+ MB/s according to storagereviews.

only true with older, 40 pin, parrallel cables. not true with the 80 pins.

I run hdd slave to a cdrw master and it's fine.

 

[Sheriff]

No problem and no loss of speed when hooked with the CDRW on the Chipset...If it'll help your scenerio, I doubt it