Placement of master and slave on IDE cable, does it mater?

[mopar360]

I'm going to have the hard drive and CD-RW on the primary IDE and the DVD and Zip on the secondary, with the hard drive and DVD as masters. Does the master, mainly wondering about hard drive, have to be at the end of the cable with the CD-RW on the middle plug? Or can the hard drive be on the middle plug of the ribbon cable? My current setup has the hard drive on the end but I'm building a new system and cant stand the cluter it makes plus its a stretch to get it back up to the DVD.
Also is it recommended to use anything longer than an 18" cable for such things or will it hurt performance? Oh yeah all this is going to be with 66/100 cables if it makes a diference. Thanks.

 

[HD2GO]

It doesn't matter unless you configure them to be cable select.

 

[Floyd]

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[CalebTG]

You may want to repossition your drives.

if you have two drives; one master, one slave; only one of the drives can be accessed at a time on and IDE configuration.

For the best performace, I would suggest:

primary master: HD
primary slave: Zip Drive
secondary master: Cd-RW
secondary slave: DVD


I recommend this because the HD is your primary unit. The zip drive will take the least performace away from your HD.
The dvd and cd-rw will almost never be used at the same time, so you can't really lose performance from that, but CD-RWs seem to like the master position a little more than slave.

Just a suggestion

 

[Remedy]

But if your doing a CD to CD burn wouln't both the DVD rom and CD-RW be functioning together on the same channel at the sametime?

 

[The Wildcard]

I heard it's best to maximize the two ide channels, so you would configure them so you would use them at the same time. So if oyu like to do alot of CD to CD burns, then you would sepeate the DVD and CDR on different ide channels so that when your computer is burning, it is using both channels.