IDE setup

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Orv

Ok I think this is probably a no brainer, but here goes.......

1 hard drive (120 GB WD)
1 DVD R/RW (Sony)
1 CD R/W (Plextor)

My new system has 2 ide slots (primary, secondary) ....

Do I put the hd on the primary alone and put the DVD and the CD R/W on the
secondary?

Or do I add the DVD R/RW alone on the secondary with the CD R/w as slave to
the HD on the primary??

Probably a simple answer, but I want to get it right the first time.

TIA,
Orv
 
Orv said:
Ok I think this is probably a no brainer, but here goes.......

1 hard drive (120 GB WD)
1 DVD R/RW (Sony)
1 CD R/W (Plextor)

My new system has 2 ide slots (primary, secondary) ....

Do I put the hd on the primary alone and put the DVD and the CD R/W on the
secondary?

Or do I add the DVD R/RW alone on the secondary with the CD R/w as slave to
the HD on the primary??

Probably a simple answer, but I want to get it right the first time.
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It doesn't really matter as long as you have the jumpers set correctly. Some
people say that, it you want to do 'on-the-fly' copies with your optical
disks then it's best if the source drive and the destination drive are on
different channels. While that idea has merits I prefer to have my HDDs on
one channel and my opticals on the other. It's easier to route the cables
and seems to make no difference to anything. (I've tried many different
lay-outs).
 
well, speaking from experience, have your high speed IDE devices on 1
channel, and your slower drives (CD, DVD, ZIP drives etc) on another.
i had 2x maxtor 40gb's ATA133's, a CDRW and DVDrom drive, 1hdd on each
channel, and the optical drives as slaves - 2gb transfer was around 10mins.
swapped so i had the 2x HDD's on 1 ide channel, and the optical drives on
the 2nd channel, and the 10min tranfer, went down to around 1-2mins.

some motherboards dont mind HDD's on difference channels, but my motherboard
did (asus A7v333). i`d recommend having your opticals on secondary channel,
and HDD(s) on primary.

tim
 
HD alone on primary channel. CD-RW as Master, DVD as Slave on Secondary
channel.

Hope this helps :)
 
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