Disk cabling priority

[jime]

If you have one EIDE controller and 2 Harddrives and 2 Optical drives - How
would you cable? Why? Primary M & S; Secondary M & S.

 

[Shep©]

If you have one EIDE controller and 2 Harddrives and 2 Optical drives - How
would you cable? Why? Primary M & S; Secondary M & S.

Hard drive and Optical on same IDE ports Unless you do a massive
amount of Hard drive to Hard drive data manipulation.
HTH

 

[JAD]

If you have one EIDE controller and 2 Harddrives and 2 Optical drives -
How would you cable? Why? Primary M & S; Secondary M & S.

If I had 1 (One) hard drive EIDE controller I wouldn't be able to have more
than 2 drives. ;^)~

I would have both hard drives on primary (because I always transfer data
between hard drives)
Then activating the secondary, I would have the opticals(or I should say "I"
would have another Hard drive(slave) and a dvd combo(master) on the
secondary)

 

[DaveW]

You didn't give the models of the drives you're talking about. But assuming
they are current models, You want to put the two harddrives on one IDE
channel and the two optical drives on the other IDE channel.
The reasoning here is that current harddrives have faster data transfer
rates than current optical drives, and so if you put one harddrive on IDE 1
as Master and one optical drive on IDE 1 as Slave, the harddrive's data
transfer rate will be no faster than the slower speed of the attached
optical drive.

 

[Ed Medlin]

You didn't give the models of the drives you're talking about. But
assuming they are current models, You want to put the two harddrives on
one IDE channel and the two optical drives on the other IDE channel.
The reasoning here is that current harddrives have faster data transfer
rates than current optical drives, and so if you put one harddrive on IDE
1 as Master and one optical drive on IDE 1 as Slave, the harddrive's data
transfer rate will be no faster than the slower speed of the attached
optical drive.

That is very old school Dave and not true anymore. You can place a HDD with
any optical and the HDD will operate at it's rated speed. This is true
whether the HDD is master or slave. Doesn't make a difference as far as HDD
speed is concerned. Read up on recent controllers and you will find the
answer. I think you may have to go back to about the SS-7 days (or
thereabouts) since the above was true.

Ed

 

[Shep©]

You didn't give the models of the drives you're talking about. But assuming
they are current models, You want to put the two harddrives on one IDE
channel and the two optical drives on the other IDE channel.
The reasoning here is that current harddrives have faster data transfer
rates than current optical drives, and so if you put one harddrive on IDE 1
as Master and one optical drive on IDE 1 as Slave, the harddrive's data
transfer rate will be no faster than the slower speed of the attached
optical drive.

Same old ill-informed bullshit from DaveWAnker.