Master/Slave question

[Ike0069]

I have a CDRW and a DVD drive connected together as master/slave. A co-worker told me that I should not do this. He told me to put the DVD as a slave connected to my hard drive. I told him he was crazy, but he insisted he was correct. I'm wondering if what he said is true, or is he just screwing with me?

 

[Ronin]

That actually depends on what you plan on doing with the drives. If you plan on passing data between the drives (like if you were doing a disk to disk copy), then I'd suggest what he said. If you're not using the drives at the same time, then their location really isn't going to matter all that much.

 

[Ike0069]

If I get a second HD, where should I connect it?

 

[BurnItDwn]

nowadays it doen't really matter much. Its Ideal to have the CDROM and DVDrom on seperate channels to make disc to disc transfers transfer faster, bit nowadays, cdrws all have some sort of burn proof ... where if it slows down, its OK and it doesn't buffur underrun and make coasters.

If you get a second hard drive you can always make it into a secondary master or slave ... or you can add in a IDE card for more channels.

 

[dw58]

My experience is that if you place the cdrw or dvd rom as a slave on the the hard drive cable that the boot time increases a lot (like three times as long). I did not see enough increase in performance to put up with the slow boot times.

 

[Ike0069]

Thanks for the comments. I think I'll leave mine the way it is.

 

[carpenter]

I have mine on the same channel as master and slave on one machine and each on it's own channel on another( I'm using the raid for hard drives and it frees up both ide connectors) When I do a copy on either box, I don't see any difference in copy times. Both boxes are running the same exact cdrw and dvd.