Recommend an IDE setup for me....

[ors]

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...

 

[bacillus]

if you intend to do alot of cd>cd copying then suggest you put each optical drive on seperate channels!

 

[VSEKH]

Since the hard drive is ata133, you should keep this on its own ide channel(use primary master). Try putting the cd-rw as secondary master and cd-rom secondary slave. This should work for you.