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NEED HELP please! this is about IDE devices and MBs

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jamerdean

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I have an MSI KT3 Ultra Series [model #MS-6380E (v1.x)] ATX Motherboard

It is the version with the RAID with the VIA KT333 chipset.

Here is my question:

I have a cdrom, a cdrw, and two 40gig hds connected to the board using the normal ide connectors.

One harddrive is slaved to another and the cdrw is slaved to the cdrom.

I have recently purchased a DVD-rom and i want to hook it to my system. Can I slave it to one of the harddrives and put the other harddrive into the RAID ide ports?

thanks for the imput

jamerdean
 
You shouldn't put a cd/dvd device on the same controller as a hard drive. The hard drive won't perform well.
 
It's better to put the CD roms as slaves to the hard drives, the controler can only access one HD at a time. if the two hard drives are on the same controller it'll be slower.
 
Originally posted by: Viper96720
Why not setup the two 40gig drives as a raid array. Otherwise you can put the hard drives on the raid controller.
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i thought that if you did this, the hd's would back up each other and you would loose one?!?

you know, one is the main and the other is the back up of the main

 
No, optical drives seperate of HDD's. It's true, when two devices are on the same cable, you can only read or write to one at once. So, think about it....playing a game with the cd in you drive, you'd be swapping between reading your cd drive and HDD if on the same cable. Much better to do it the other way.
 
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