hey! don't really know where to post this.. but here goes..
i just recently bought a cd-rw drive and i really don't know where to put it to maximize performance... my mobo supports 2 ide channels and i have 3 devices to plug into it: a hard drive, cd-rom, cd-rw drive...
they support the following transfer rates:
hard drive: ATA/133
cd-rom: DMA MW-2
cd-rw: ATA/33
i'm using a D850MD RDRAM P4 board which uses the ICH2
should i:
1. primary master: hd
secondary master: cd-rw
secondary slave: cd-rom
2. primary master: hd
secondary master: cd-rom
secondary slave: cd-rw
3. primary master: hd
primary slave: cd-rom
secondary master: cd-rw
well what do you think? because isn't it that the transfer rate will match the slower drive if i mix a faster one with a slower one??
e.g. if i put the hd and cd-rw on one channel my hd transfer rate will go down to ata/33 because that's the fastest my cd-rw drive supports???
thanks for any help your can provide... i know this might seam trivial but i get really obssesive complusive when it comes to these things...
i just recently bought a cd-rw drive and i really don't know where to put it to maximize performance... my mobo supports 2 ide channels and i have 3 devices to plug into it: a hard drive, cd-rom, cd-rw drive...
they support the following transfer rates:
hard drive: ATA/133
cd-rom: DMA MW-2
cd-rw: ATA/33
i'm using a D850MD RDRAM P4 board which uses the ICH2
should i:
1. primary master: hd
secondary master: cd-rw
secondary slave: cd-rom
2. primary master: hd
secondary master: cd-rom
secondary slave: cd-rw
3. primary master: hd
primary slave: cd-rom
secondary master: cd-rw
well what do you think? because isn't it that the transfer rate will match the slower drive if i mix a faster one with a slower one??
e.g. if i put the hd and cd-rw on one channel my hd transfer rate will go down to ata/33 because that's the fastest my cd-rw drive supports???
thanks for any help your can provide... i know this might seam trivial but i get really obssesive complusive when it comes to these things...