What's the deal with IDE throughput?

[Meat]

I thought I remember reading on this forum, that the problem with IDE devices only being as fast as the slowest device it shares a channel with is not true anymore, and that the newer motherboards have fixed this problem.

I am making coasters with my Plextor 8x burner when I burn more than 2x. I have a Quantum Fireball ATA66 running at 33 megs/sec on my Primary Master and my Plextor on the Primary slave. I have my Toshiba DVD on the Secondary Master and an IDE zip on the Secondary slave. Does this have anything to do with coasters? I am using Nero on a Pentium III 450 with 128 megs of ram and Windows 98.

 

[da loser]

if you're burning from the hd, try putting the burning on the secondary channel, maybe you're getting buffer underruns?

 

[The Stigenator]

Always put the CDRW on a channel other than where your data is coming from.
Put IDE PRIMARY MASTER = HDD - Quantum
Put IDE PRIMARY SLAVE = DVD - Toshiba
Put IDE SECONDARY MASTER = CDRW - Plextor
Put IDE SECONDARY SLAVE = ZIP - Iomega.

That will work the best.

TGG