Which IDE location best for CDROM?

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Which IDE location best for CDROM?

I've got a couple options (or more):

I have an older mobo w/ 2 ATA33 IDE ports.
I also have a SIIG ATA100 IDE PCI card w/ 2 IDE ports.
I have 2 80GB ATA100 HDS w/ varous NTFS and FAT32 partitions.
I also have CD/DVD ROM Drive (ATAPI?)

Option A)
1 HD on the SIIG ATA IDE1 master
1 HD on the SIIG IDE2 master
1 DVDROM on the SIIG IDE2 slave
mobo IDE1 and IDE2 are DISABLED in BIOS

Option B)
1 HD on the SIIG ATA IDE1 master
1 HD on the SIIG IDE2 master
1 DVDROM on the mobo IDE1 master (renable mobo IDE)

Option C)
....?

What is recommended? (and if you care to - why?)

thanks!
 
Which IDE location best for CDROM?

I've got a couple options (or more):

I have an older mobo w/ 2 ATA33 IDE ports.
I also have a SIIG ATA100 IDE PCI card w/ 2 IDE ports.
I have 2 80GB ATA100 HDS w/ varous NTFS and FAT32 partitions.
I also have CD/DVD ROM Drive (ATAPI?)

Option A)
1 HD on the SIIG ATA IDE1 master
1 HD on the SIIG IDE2 master
1 DVDROM on the SIIG IDE2 slave
mobo IDE1 and IDE2 are DISABLED in BIOS

Option B)
1 HD on the SIIG ATA IDE1 master
1 HD on the SIIG IDE2 master
1 DVDROM on the mobo IDE1 master (renable mobo IDE)

Option C)
...?

What is recommended? (and if you care to - why?)
Click to expand...


ATA33 is a significant performance bottleneck for the hard
drives, you would benefit to have at least the OS drive on
(either of the) ATA100 card's channels. 2nd HDD, if only
filestorage, not demanding large files like games or video
editing, large database, etc, could be placed anywhere since it's
not so significant a performance decrease. That's what you ought
to determine first, if the 2nd drive needs utmost performance or
not.

If it does need the utmost performance, put each HDD on separate
ATA100 card channel and each optical drive on seperate
motherboard channels. If not, you could still use that
arrangement or focus more on cable routing. The optical drives
don't need ATA100 though, there is no point to putting them on
the ATA100 card channels unless/until you ran out of motherboard
ID channel positions after adding other/more/new devices.
 
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:24:37 -0500, pgtr <> wrote:

| Which IDE location best for CDROM?
|
| I've got a couple options (or more):
|
| I have an older mobo w/ 2 ATA33 IDE ports.
| I also have a SIIG ATA100 IDE PCI card w/ 2 IDE ports.
| I have 2 80GB ATA100 HDS w/ varous NTFS and FAT32 partitions.
| I also have CD/DVD ROM Drive (ATAPI?)
|
| Option A)
| 1 HD on the SIIG ATA IDE1 master
| 1 HD on the SIIG IDE2 master
| 1 DVDROM on the SIIG IDE2 slave
| mobo IDE1 and IDE2 are DISABLED in BIOS
|
| Option B)
| 1 HD on the SIIG ATA IDE1 master
| 1 HD on the SIIG IDE2 master
| 1 DVDROM on the mobo IDE1 master (renable mobo IDE)
|
| Option C)

Your principal HD on IDE1 as master
Your second HD on IDE1 as slave
Your CD-ROM on IDE2 (Master designation probably won't be needed
unless you install a second drive on IDE2. If you decide to get a
DVD-RW or CD-RW at some point, make sure it's set as master on IDE2
with your CD-ROM as slave).

Larc



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Which IDE location best for CDROM?

I've got a couple options (or more):

I have an older mobo w/ 2 ATA33 IDE ports.
I also have a SIIG ATA100 IDE PCI card w/ 2 IDE ports.
I have 2 80GB ATA100 HDS w/ varous NTFS and FAT32 partitions.
I also have CD/DVD ROM Drive (ATAPI?)

Option A)
1 HD on the SIIG ATA IDE1 master
1 HD on the SIIG IDE2 master
1 DVDROM on the SIIG IDE2 slave
mobo IDE1 and IDE2 are DISABLED in BIOS

Option B)
1 HD on the SIIG ATA IDE1 master
1 HD on the SIIG IDE2 master
1 DVDROM on the mobo IDE1 master (renable mobo IDE)

Option C)
...?

What is recommended? (and if you care to - why?)

thanks!
Click to expand...

You should have your Cdrom/DVD drive on a separate IDE chain from the
hard drive you are copying files from.
If you have 2 Cdrom/DVD devices on the system and you do a lot
of,"On-The-Fly" recording direct from Cdrom disk to Cdrom disk then
they should be on separate IDE chains.

If you copy a lot of files from hard drive to hard drive then you
should have these on separate IDE chains.
Ideally,"All" devices should be alone on an IDE port and this is where
a PCI,"Add-on" IDE controller card comes into it's own.
HTH :)



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