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what's the best way to set up my IDE devices?

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CivilRightsLawyer

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I have an Asus Cubx that has four IDE connectors on the motherboard (I also have an old Soundblaster AWE32 that oddly has an IDE connector on the board).

On the Cubx IDE1 & 2 support ATA33
IDE3 & 4 support ATA66

right now my current config is:

IDE3: master, Diamondmax 80 (boot drive) ATA66
: no slave

IDE1: master, Plextor 16x
slave, hot-swap hard drive bay

IDE2: IBM 15gig ATA33
Mitsumi 40x (crappy) cdrom drive

Soundblaster IDE:Mitsumi 8x4x32 cdrw

 
usually people put the cdrw and the cdrom on separate channels. some times there are problems when copying cds when you have them on the same channel
 


<< just get a pci ata 100 controller and everything should be A ok 🙂 >>



Why would he need one of those?
 
thanks.

i dont need at ATA100 controller since the Cubx supports ATA66 on two IDE channels. The performance increase from ATA66 to ATA100 is negligible.

 

my suggestion

new harddrive as master on ide 3
old harddrive as master on ide 4
cd/dvd as master on ide 1
cdrw as master and slave on ide 2

never heard about someone using a cdrw on a soundcard, i wonder how that works
 
my ancient Soundblaster AWE32 is a full-length ISA card.
it has an IDE connector at the end of the card, which I didn't notice until almost 4 years after having it! hahaha

i checked my control panel-system-devices and it does in fact list a Creative Lab IDE controller. I plugged my cdrom to it and it works!

but i still wonder why would a sound card have an IDE connector for? i guess it was Creative's way of making this card attractive to users.
 
Back in the day many motherboards didn't have the additional things needed to support another CD-ROM drive and so to make those multimedia bundles work they put an IDE on the sound card insuring you have some way of hooking up the CD-Rom no matter what the system config was prior.
 
Another point is not to stick too many items on the same molex power connector &quot;line&quot; as your hard drive as it needs as much power as it can get...

Obviously you shouldn't put ATA-33 drives as slaves to ATA-66 drives as one IDE controller channel runs at the slowest device connected...

Sure you all know all this however...

 
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