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connecting 2 HD's & 2 CD drives
Name: Pete Date: August 27, 2002 at 05:43:33 Pacific
Comment:
What's the best way to have these connected, meaning which as masters, slaves? I have a 120G WD and a 80G WD hard drive. I have a DVD Rom and a LiteOn CD writer. Right now the OS is on the 80G drive.
Name: Randaroo Date: August 27, 2002 at 06:10:05 Pacific
Reply:
Set the two hard drives as master/slave on the primary IDE controller and the burner/cdrom as master/slave on the secondary.
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Response Number 2
Name: dsbal Date: August 27, 2002 at 06:43:27 Pacific
Reply:
Some burning programs don't like source and target on the same IDE channel, however...I'd go with both hard drives as master, and cd's as slaves...
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Response Number 3
Name: lilrabbit129 Date: August 27, 2002 at 10:22:53 Pacific
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But if you do put on the HD's as primaries and CD's as slaves, I heard somewhere that since the CD's at most run at ATA33, the drives will also run at that slow speed.
any truth to this?
-ME
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Response Number 4
Name: KokoTheWise Date: August 27, 2002 at 11:06:39 Pacific
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the best way was stated above where you have the 2 hard drives on one IDE slot and the 2 ROMS on the other... its best to keep roms with roms and Hard drives with hard drives..
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Response Number 5
Name: Frank Date: August 27, 2002 at 15:27:03 Pacific
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Yes, like with like.
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Response Number 6
Name: dsbal Date: August 27, 2002 at 19:39:43 Pacific
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The only way the CD's will slow down the hard drives is if you're transferring data from CD to HD...it will only be able to pull as fast as the CD will allow, but this is true no matter what channel you install them on...
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Response Number 7
Name: Toby Date: August 29, 2002 at 21:53:58 Pacific
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I have HD and CD on one channel, and HD and CDRW on the other. HDs are set as masters on both and are attached mid-cable. One HD is ATA 100 and other is ATA 66, they are detected properly. No performance problems.
I have heard that having CD & CDRW on different channels makes for more efficient CD copying, same for data transfer between HDs.
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Response Number 8
Name: dsbal Date: August 30, 2002 at 17:13:38 Pacific
Summary: Ok, I have 2 hard drives and 2 CD drives. I have the HD on one IDE cable, and the CD drives on the other. I wanted to put them so that the cables were set up 1 HD and 1 CD rom each so that I could do ...
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