Please help me set up my HDs...

[Caveman]

Building a new rig in the next several days with a Neo2Plat board and a 3500+

I have:

SATA 74 Gig Raptor as my boot drive
An IDE as a data disk
DVD writer IDE
CD Reader IDE
Floppy drive

What would be the best way to confugure these with respect to primary/secondary, etc?

Can a SATA drive be primary and an IDE be secondary? Or is that terminology only applicable within the same drive type (i.e. I would have a "primary" SATA drive only and then a Primary and Secondary IDE with the third IDED on its own IDE channel)

Confused Noob, please help...

 

[chocoruacal]

You don't have to worry about primary/secondary. Simply hook up the SATA, put the data disk on one ATA channel, and then master/slave the optical drives on the other.

 

[Steven the Leech]

SATA 74 Gig Raptor sata # 1
DVD writer primary on ide channell 1
Ide HD-primary/cdrom slave on channell 2

If you do not do a lot of copying from one optical device to the other[on the fly] then you could place the 2 optical devices on the secondary ide channel [dvd-primary/cdrom-slave] with the HD [ide] as master on the primary ide channell.

 

[Caveman]

STL and Choc... You both seem to come up with the same solution

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Simply hook up the SATA, put the data disk on one ATA channel, and then master/slave the optical drives on the other.

AND...

If you do not do a lot of copying from one optical device to the other[on the fly] then you could place the 2 optical devices on the secondary ide channel [dvd-primary/cdrom-slave] with the HD [ide] as master on the primary ide channel.
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I will not be doing a lot of "On the fly copying"... I want the relative speed of the drives to be from least to greatest:

SATA
IDE HD
IDE DVD Writer
IDE CD Reader

So, I believe I will go with what you both suggest unless someone chimes in otherwise. Your conclusions seem to make sense... Thanks for the help.