2 atapi drives on one IDE cable

[Guest]

I am running XP pro and my mother board only allows 1 IDE cable. I have
serial harddrives.

I was wondering if it is possible to have 2 atapi/ide drives (ex cdr and dvd
burner) on the same cable?

All the configurations that I have seen, say to have a harddrive and 1 atapi
on a cable. Let me know.


Regards,

 

[ByTor]

I am running XP pro and my mother board only allows 1 IDE cable. I have
serial harddrives.

I was wondering if it is possible to have 2 atapi/ide drives (ex cdr and dvd
burner) on the same cable?

All the configurations that I have seen, say to have a harddrive and 1 atapi
on a cable. Let me know.


Regards,

From my understanding the only problem that I ever heard may occur with
having two cd devices attached to the same cable is potential problems
if you like doing disk to disk copies.
I would never attach a cd device to a harddrive.....just my personal
preference.
I have 4 burners attached to a controller Master slaved to each other &
have NO issues...............
If a MB handles it differently than I honestly have no clue, I don't see
the difference. I choose to put burners on my controller as when I burn
my computer does not even flinch..............

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Most CD/DVD/Tape/harddrives can be combined onto the IDE cables. The
standard IDE ports can allow upto two drives per cable, normally. This may
be known as a Master/Slave drive configuration. Some DVD/CD/Tape drive may
not work correctly if set up to be the "slave drive". You will notice a
huge performance slow down when you copy CDs or use graphic intensive
programs (ie: gmaes.).

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am running XP pro and my mother board only allows 1 IDE cable. I have
serial harddrives.

I was wondering if it is possible to have 2 atapi/ide drives (ex cdr and dvd
burner) on the same cable?

Yes it is. Make the burner the master. The general view is that if
you have two hard drives, it is better to separate them and have the
Atapi ones as slaves.

 

[ByTor]

Yes it is. Make the burner the master. The general view is that if
you have two hard drives, it is better to separate them and have the
Atapi ones as slaves.

Just curious? Why is that?
I've heard of such things before being suggested but wouldn't that
decrease the performance of the HD's by putting a lesser piece of
Hardware on the same line? I've done tests with HD Tach with Roms
attached to them & not attached and noticed a "decrease" in the
performance of the HD....When I pulled the atapi device off the reading
for the hdrive improved drastically......
Is the rom being a master make the difference????
Just curious, not looking to start a big debate, maybe I missed
something along the way as far as configurations......This is just one
of the reasons why I "never" attach an atapi device to a
harddrive.....But than again, maybe I missed something... ;0)

 

[Bob I]

Serial ATA hard drives do not have a jumper block to designate whether
the drive is master, slave, single, or cable select, as EIDE hard drives
do. There is only one Serial ATA drive per channel (cable), so no
master/slave relationship exists.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Just curious? Why is that?
I've heard of such things before being suggested but wouldn't that
decrease the performance of the HD's by putting a lesser piece of
Hardware on the same line?

No, it doesn't on any half way modern hardware. Very early IDE ran at
speed of the slower device, but no longer. The main reason is to
separate devices where you may want to copy from one to the other. And
to allow simultaneous accesses to the HDs

 

[ByTor]

No, it doesn't on any half way modern hardware. Very early IDE ran at
speed of the slower device, but no longer. The main reason is to
separate devices where you may want to copy from one to the other. And
to allow simultaneous accesses to the HDs

Okay, makes sense.......Thanks. ;0)