When adding a hard drive

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With one DVD/CD burner.

Is it better to set the added hard drive as a "slave" on the same IDE
channel as the existing hard drive or set the DVD/CD burner as a "slave"
to one of the hard drives and run the additional hard drive on it's own
channel?
 
It is further alleged that on or about Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:20:28
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|With one DVD/CD burner.
|
|Is it better to set the added hard drive as a "slave" on the same IDE
|channel as the existing hard drive or set the DVD/CD burner as a "slave"
|to one of the hard drives and run the additional hard drive on it's own
|channel?

It is best to have the slave on your primary. It is not recommended to
have an optical drive on the same channel as a hard drive as the
controller adjusts itself to the speed of the hard drive and degrades
performance.
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,102525,pg,2,00.asp
 
It is further alleged that on or about Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:20:31
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nos1eep <[email protected]> spewed the following:

|It is further alleged that on or about Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:20:28
|-0700, in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, the queezy keyboard of SHRED
|<[email protected]> spewed the following:
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||With one DVD/CD burner.
||
||Is it better to set the added hard drive as a "slave" on the same IDE
||channel as the existing hard drive or set the DVD/CD burner as a "slave"
||to one of the hard drives and run the additional hard drive on it's own
||channel?
|
|It is best to have the slave on your primary. It is not recommended to
|have an optical drive on the same channel as a hard drive as the
|controller adjusts itself to the speed of the optical drive and degrades
|performance.
|http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,102525,pg,2,00.asp

minor edit.
 
nos1eep said:
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||With one DVD/CD burner.
||
||Is it better to set the added hard drive as a "slave" on the same IDE
||channel as the existing hard drive or set the DVD/CD burner as a "slave"
||to one of the hard drives and run the additional hard drive on it's own
||channel?
|
|It is best to have the slave on your primary. It is not recommended to
|have an optical drive on the same channel as a hard drive as the
|controller adjusts itself to the speed of the optical drive and degrades
|performance.
|http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,102525,pg,2,00.asp

minor edit.
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This guide is a little more reasonable:

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf.htm

"Independent Master/Slave Device Timing:

Hard disk controllers on modern systems support running the master
and slave device at different speeds, if one supports faster transfer
modes than the other. Some systems, however, especially older ones,
do not. If you are using two devices with radically different
maximum transfer rates, and the chipset doesn't support independent
timing, you will slow down the faster device to the speed of the
slower one."

If the two devices you put on a cable, tend to be used independently
from one another, and the chipset is modern, then there is little to
fear from mixing a hard drive and an optical disk drive, on an 80
wire cable.

Paul
 
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