IDE Config

[Techy]

Hi guys n gals,

just wanted your opiion on something, i've always set ide devices in the following config:

pri mas - HDD

pri sla - HDD

sec mas - cd-rom

sec sla - cd-rom

as i understand this is the best config, hdd's together and atapi devices togther.

any thoughts.

James

 

[Ian]

I must admit, I do the same as you... but I have heard using Pri/Sec Master as HDD and Pri/Sec Slave as CD-ROM works the best, so it can fully utilise both channels. I'm not sure which is true, but someone here will

 

[muckshifter]

Same as me ...

... we may see other "best configurations", however, todays' tower cases deem it so and with the "mordern" HD/CD drive it doesn't really matter.

Ever tried to get the 'gray' slave connector to reach a CD drive in a Hightower?

 

[ChristopherP]

SATA 3/4 - hdd

IDE 1 - CD rom

 

[floppybootstomp]

I've just recently had a good search around to try and get to the bottom of this issue.

I always thought it was better to have any optical drives on different IDE ports, as data to and from them would be slowed if they were sharing one port.

It would appear not to be so.

The overwhelming point of view is that where possible hard drives should not be on the same IDE port as an optical drive as in theory the HDD will be slowed down to the same transfer speed as the optical drive.

I even had a note with a hard drive advising not to share it with an optical drive.

So there we have it. Looks like I was wrong all those years
(Mucks is going to gain some small satisfaction from this admission, as this is an issue on which we'd previously disagreed, lol)

And the config as outlined in the first post here would seem to be correct.

As for me:

Machine one:

2 x SATA HDD in RAID 0
IDE HDD One - IDE 1 Master
IDE HDD Two - IDE 1 Slave
DVD-ROM drive - IDE 2 master
CDRW drive - IDE 2 slave

Machine Two:

2 x SATA HDD, RAID 0
IDE HDD 1 - IDE 1 Master
DVD-ROM Drive - IDE 2 Master
DVDRW Drive - IDE 2 Slave

As for my daughter's machine, I honestly can't remember how I set that up, but it works well

 

[james]

I go

SCSI 0: Master=Drive C:\Boot Disk

IDE 0: Master=DVD\R-RW\Reader\2XWrite
IDE 1 Slave=Hard drive?
IDE 2 Master=DVD\R\RW\Writer\4X Write
IDE 3 Slave=CDROM\W-RW
SCSI 1:Slave=Hard drive
SCSI 2:Slave= Hard driv
SCSI 3:not used