Master/Slave question

[Mermaidman]

I was looking at the installation guide for my new Sony DVD burner. For a two-optical drive setup, Sony says that the recommended arrangement is
-Main hard drive by itself on the primary IDE channel
-DVD burner is slave on secondary IDE channel, and read-only optical drive is master

Does this sound correct? I always thought a burner should be the master or even on its own IDE channel. Thoughts?

 

[blodhi74]

it is recomended that the burner should be on its own IDE channel and set as master .... it will ensure that U get very few read/write errors since a lot of data is bieng transfered through that channel

 

[Mermaidman]

That's what I thought, so why would the Sony manual recommend otherwise?

 

[blodhi74]

beats me ..... maybe some one can elaborate on this further

 

[LED]

K..I'll give it 1 shot:
I usually keep my CD/DVD-RW's on seperate channels because I copy disc to disc and don't want my Opticals to share bandwith on the same channel because it would cause 1 performance hit...Maybe Sony on the other hand fears that some may have older chipsets so in that Case having the Opticals on seperate IDE chains along with the read being Master may work best ITO, BTA it may just be 1 of many Manual Typo errors 😛

 

[Mermaidman]

LOL--it's not a typo 😀

Currently, I have each optical drive on a separate channel. This has its own drawback too though because the hard drive sharing the channel would operate at the optical drive's slower throughput (ATA33 instead of ATA133).

 

[LED]

LOL--it's not a typo

LOL if you wish but it very well could be as I have seen many a Manuals get lost in translantion...you have to remember that what ever you are reading originally was written in Jap Rap and I speak that language so I know 😉. I don't do Taiwanese but I've heard that is that is the easiest to get lost in 😛