New computer setup... Slave? master? Differences?

[WayneTeK]

Ok.. i'm making a new computer. I'm a noob when it comes to creating a system from scratch..

My question is, if i have the IDE cable can connect to the HD, floppy, CD-RW, DVD, etc... How should i set this up??

Should i set it up so that one IDE cable connects to the CD-RW + DVD and the other IDE cable to connect to the Floppy and HD???

Does it make a differnce how you customize it? Performance drops/increases???

Also, what is the differnces between Slave/Master/etc..???

Please help a noob out.. thank you!

 

[MikeMike]

floppy uses its own cable set the cd-rw and dvd-rom on one cable, one set as master one as slave, and have the hdd on its own cable

 

[HardwareAddicted]

Remember that if you burn on the fly, you will want the CD/DVD player on one cable, and the burner on the other, but not on the same cable.
But if you copy the data to your hard drive first, then go with the setup given by nourdmrolNMT1.

In general, I put my HD as the primary master, then my DVD secondary master followed by my CD-RW as the secondary slave.
If I wanted to see how burning on the fly works on my system (separating the DVD player & CD-RW),
I would have to put it back like this if it didn't work very well, but I'm not worried about it too much.

I hope this helps you..... good luck

 

[BLiT45]

Ummm...I have the HD as Primary Master, the DVD as secondary Slave, and CDRW as secondary Master, and I can burn on the fly just fine...??? At least it's working for me, unless I'm missing something...have Lite-on 16x DVD and Lite-on 40x burner...

 

[HardwareAddicted]

Yeah, it will work, its just not prefered or recommended.
Even Nero will warn of this when you try to burn on the fly if you have both drives on the same IDE cable...but it can work.

I just set up my friend with a 16/48 Lite-On DVD and a 48x12x48x Lite-On CD-RW and Nero came up right away with this warning.
It makes sense that it would work better if they had thier own IDE bus....

But hey, it's nice to know that it still works though...

~ Mark

 

[TheCorm]

Yeah, it will work, its just not prefered or recommended.
Even Nero will warn of this when you try to burn on the fly if you have both drives on the same IDE cable...but it can work.

But then sharing an IDE cable with a hard drive and a CD-ROM drive isn't really recommended either....so you can't win totally! but I personally would rather have the hard disk with it's own dedicated channel since it's the most used device.

Also, what is the differnces between Slave/Master/etc..???

The difference between the two is simple really, it's just giving them there own "ID" as if Master is Device 1 and Slave is Device 2 (each IDE Connector on the board supports 2 devices.

 

[BLiT45]

Hmmm...with some of the newer mobo's with built in RAID, you could use the RAID controller section to hook up the HD's, then put the CDRW, DVD/CDR each to their own channels/cables, one could I suppose, right?

Well, I don't do much copying anyways...on the fly or otherwise, but I do burn CD's from the hard-drive alot. I guess in my case it wouldn't hurt to copy to the HD first on the rare occasion I want to do a copy...on the fly might save a few min I suppose...I guess it all depends on what your doing, and how much of it your doing.

I'd rather not have any CDRW, DVD, etc sharing the same cable as the HD, last thing I would want is to slow down the HD any...everything takes too long to load anyways these days on the HD, especially games.