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Which IDE port should I use for CD-ROM (SATA hard drive)?

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ddeder

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I have a motherboard that has SATA connections as well as a primary and secondary IDE ports. My hard drive is SATA so therefore does not use an IDE port. When using an IDE hard drive, the CD-ROM drives are usually connected to the secondary IDE port. Now that the hard drive is SATA, should I connect the CD-ROM drive to the primary IDE or the secondary? Does it matter at all?
 
It doesn't really matter but convention holds that you add drives in this order: 1- Primary on Primary channel, 2- Primary on 2ndary channel, 3- 2ndary on Primary channel and you only have one left so guess 😉 . Cross channel transfers work best so have pairs of drives that engage in data transfers frequently on separate channels. I try to put all IDE drives on their own channels when I have to do IDE (controllers are cheap). I prefer SCSI as such things are irrelevant.
. Thats the one other advantage of SATA besides the cleaner cabling is that each connection is its own channel.

.bh.

:moon:
 
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