Will it degrade the CDRWs performance to have it as Secondary Slave to a DVDRom?

[Noriaki]

Some of you may remember the strange MCI errors I was getting when I started DVD station for my hollywood plus (thread here). (by the way it does that without a disc in the drive).

Well I completely uninstalled the drivers, and reinstalled them and presto no error...well that's because my default optical drive is set to E: (my CDRW) not F: (my DVD) as soon as I selected F: boom up pops the error...

Well...a suggestion in that other thread was that I make the DVD Rom master on it's channel...

Well that's ok..but the Yamaha CDRW's quick start guide claims that it should be the master, not slave. What I want to know is will making this the slave have a negative impact on the CDRWs performance?

WTF am I suppose to do? Primary Master: DVD, and Sec Master: CDRW and make my two hard drive slaves???

I know lots of people have 2 hard drives, a DVDRom and a CDRW how are you IDE chains configured?

 

[IsOs]

If you have an available PCI slot, then you can add an UltraDMA IDE card that will give you two more channel.

Actually, CDRW should be in it's own channel to avoid those buffer underrun errors when burning a CD.

How big is you harddrive? 20 GB are usually on sale for $99. Just last week 40 GB was on sale for $119 at OD.

 

[Tonec]

Primary Master: OS Hard drive
Primary Slave DVD
Secondary Master: CDRW
Secondary Slave: HD

This is my setup. cd-cd copies are on separate channels
HD-cd on separate channels. Just try not to burn from secondary slave hd to cdrw, although I've never had a problem, I suppose its less than ideal.

 

[Noriaki]

I thought about an IDE card....but I don't really want to spend the money on it, and I use Linux which doesn't get along with Add in IDE cards very well I don't think.

I'm thinking:

Primary Master: IBM75GXP Boot drive
Primary Slave: Fujitsu 5400RPM files drive
Secondary Master: DVD Rom
Secondary Slave: CDRW

The DVD Rom will never be in use when the CDRW is writing (I always image to hard drive first when I do CD to CD copy) so will the CDRW perform ok in this setup?

 

[stas5]

well this is what i have:

Primary Master: Maxtor 13.6 GB 7200 rpm
Slave: Maxtor 4.3 GB 5400 rpm
Secondary Master: Samsung DVD 12x
Slave: HP CDRW 7200

I have been on this setup for a quiet some time now. I never had any major problems with burning cd's or copying cd from DVD. However, CDRW read speed in this setup is much slower than when CDRW either master or completely on the separate channel. Burning spead is the same. Since i don't really care about CDRW read speed (i use DVD) it works for me.
hope it helps
stas

 

[Noriaki]

Thanks stas5

I hardly ever use the CDRW for reading CDs. My CDRWs are about the only thing I put in there, and i just have collections of little files on it, so I don't care, as long as I can safely burn, I don't care if it sacrifices read speed. Thanks for the reply