Performance of mixed devices on same IDE ribbon?

[mcurphy]

I was told it wasn't a good thing to put an optical drive and a hard drive on the same IDE channel. How much of a performance decrease would I see if I did this?? Are there any other drawbacks?

I have a 120GB Maxtor ATA133 hard drive and threee optical drives: a cd burner, a dvd burner, and a dvd rom, so I really need / want to hook all these up on the two channels.

Any suggestions on the best way to set this up?

Thanks,

Mcurphy

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Not connecting an optical drive with a hard drive is an old rule of thumb that no longer applies to today's devices. This used to be stated in one of the FAQs, but I couldn't find it in the search I just did. Any way, I think that you should be just fine connecting the three optical devices you listed with the hard drive on the two IDE channels provided on your motherboard. The way I would do it is:
Channel 0 Master: Hard Drive
Channel 0 Slave: DVD-ROM
Channel 1 Master: DVD-RW
Channel 1 Slave: CD-RW
I would perfer this course because it would set the drives you will be burning from (hard drive and DVD-ROM) on the opposite channel from where you will be burning to (DVD-RW and CD-RW). The only lag might be during installation of software from the DVD-ROM to the hard drive. I would suggest using one of the other devices for these installations.

 

[lenjack]

It's not a problem with any Intel 800 series chipset, if you use the Intel application accelerator. It will allow devices of different speeds to operate at their fastest, even on the same channel.

 

[fr]

Originally posted by: NelsonMuntz
Channel 0 Master: Hard Drive
Channel 0 Slave: DVD-ROM
Channel 1 Master: DVD-RW
Channel 1 Slave: CD-RW

I have the exact same hardware set up the exact same way (plus an additional 3 hard drives on a separate controller ).

 

[mcurphy]

Thenks for the responses guys!




Helps a lot!!

 

[mboy]

Originally posted by: NelsonMuntz
Not connecting an optical drive with a hard drive is an old rule of thumb that no longer applies to today's devices. This used to be stated in one of the FAQs, but I couldn't find it in the search I just did. Any way, I think that you should be just fine connecting the three optical devices you listed with the hard drive on the two IDE channels provided on your motherboard. The way I would do it is:
Channel 0 Master: Hard Drive
Channel 0 Slave: DVD-ROM
Channel 1 Master: DVD-RW
Channel 1 Slave: CD-RW
I would perfer this course because it would set the drives you will be burning from (hard drive and DVD-ROM) on the opposite channel from where you will be burning to (DVD-RW and CD-RW). The only lag might be during installation of software from the DVD-ROM to the hard drive. I would suggest using one of the other devices for these installations.

Very good advice!!!

I have mine

ide1-master HD
ide1 salve cd-rom
ide2 master cd-rw
ide3 slave dvd-rom

since I BURN FROM EITHER THE hd TO CDRW OR FROM CD-ROM TO CDRW

 

[AtomicDude512]

Take off the CD-Burner!