Duel Hard Drive Hookup

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Axel Beck

Hi folks,
I just installed a second hard drive. IDE primary has old hard drive
on it as Master with an optical drive as slave, while the new hard
drive is master on the second IDE cable with another optical drive as
slave. My question: Is this a good configuration? I ran Partition
Magic and managed to partition both drives the way I wanted to with
the first IDE being C and E and the second IDE being D H and I. The
two optical drives coming in with F and G drive letter assignments.
All seems to be working well. Should I leave this arrangement alone or
follow Power Quest's advice and put both hard drives on the same IDE
cable (the drive with C (primary partition) as master and the drive
with D (primary partition) as slave. Then on the second cable put both
optical drives together. One optical is a Plextor DVD\RW and the other
is a Pioneer DVD\CD Rom. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks, Axel.
 
Axel Beck said:
Hi folks,
I just installed a second hard drive. IDE primary has old hard drive
on it as Master with an optical drive as slave, while the new hard
drive is master on the second IDE cable with another optical drive as
slave. My question: Is this a good configuration? I ran Partition
Magic and managed to partition both drives the way I wanted to with
the first IDE being C and E and the second IDE being D H and I. The
two optical drives coming in with F and G drive letter assignments.
All seems to be working well. Should I leave this arrangement alone or
follow Power Quest's advice and put both hard drives on the same IDE
cable (the drive with C (primary partition) as master and the drive
with D (primary partition) as slave. Then on the second cable put both
optical drives together. One optical is a Plextor DVD\RW and the other
is a Pioneer DVD\CD Rom. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks, Axel.
Click to expand...

You probably want to cable both hard drives together, and both optical
drives together. See
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf_Performance.htm for some of the
issues.
 
Hi folks,
I just installed a second hard drive. IDE primary has old hard drive
on it as Master with an optical drive as slave, while the new hard
drive is master on the second IDE cable with another optical drive as
slave. My question: Is this a good configuration? I ran Partition
Magic and managed to partition both drives the way I wanted to with
the first IDE being C and E and the second IDE being D H and I. The
two optical drives coming in with F and G drive letter assignments.
All seems to be working well. Should I leave this arrangement alone or
follow Power Quest's advice and put both hard drives on the same IDE
cable (the drive with C (primary partition) as master and the drive
with D (primary partition) as slave. Then on the second cable put both
optical drives together. One optical is a Plextor DVD\RW and the other
is a Pioneer DVD\CD Rom. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks, Axel.
Click to expand...

If powerquest told you to put them both on the same channel, I am
surprised. The hard drives tend to use the most traffic, so I usually
recommend them always on separate channels. This way you max your
throughput on each.

Your configuration seems just fine.



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The article is over 3 years old, things change. That's one reason for 80 wire 40 pin cables. I had my machine set up like the OP for 6 months and had no issues.

And I top posted too.


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Just my 2¢ worth,
Jeff
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| You probably want to cable both hard drives together, and both optical
| drives together. See
| http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf_Performance.htm for some of the
| issues.
|
| --
|
| Frank GoBell
|
|
|
 
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