IDE configuration Question

[Chensu]

Whats the best IDE setup for the following, Ive heard conflicting ideas, can anyone with real xp-erience! tell me..

I have 2 HDDs, DVD/CD drive, CDRW drive. Should I set both HDDs to masters, and DVD/CDRW to slaves? or both HDDs on one IDE channel, DVD/CDRW on the other.

Chensu.

 

[canadian_divx]

my personal opintion with this would to be have the two HDD's on one and the dvd and cdrw on the other, it is that the cd roms will be a slower transfer rate than a hdd and the dma will run with the slowest one

 

[Chensu]

OK, thanks

 

[Taurus]

agreed.

and on the channel with the dvd and cdrw... have the dvdrom be master.

 

[ditchhopper]

Dont know if this is true or not, but Ive been told that running both drives on the same ide will impair your ability to burn "on the Fly" I have both mine on the same channel and havent had any problems though. I usually prefer to burn from an image anyways.

 

[ElementalDragon]

Ditchhopper, i've heard that as well. i think it even warns u of that in Nero if you try to burn from one drive to another on the same chain. i've never tried it cause i'd rather not turn a perfectly good CD into a coaster or nice tree ornament for christmas.

 

[ditchhopper]

Never tried it with nero. Its worked succesfully with clone cd and blindwrite but as I understand it your chances of making coasters goes way up. No problems yet though.

 

[Taurus]

exactly the reason why i think onboard raid is a worthwhile feature on any motherboard.

each of my 4 drives is master of it's own channel.

 

[Zedric]

Having the DVDd and the CDRW on the same channel will impair on-the-fly a bit. But a modern computer should be fast enough to handle it anyway. Anyway, the other alternative (one hdd on each channel) will impair "normal" burning even more, so that's not a good idea. And general performance will be worse.

HDD:s together on the primary channel, DVD and CDRW together on the secondary channel.

 

[Chensu]

Thanks again for all your advice