new PC

[Marco A. Moreno]

Hi,

I'm planning to build a new PC with XP and the os, I have two HD, 20G for
the OS and 40 G for data, one CD-R and one CD-RW, what's the best way to set
it up? OS HD as master and CD-R as slave on one IDE channel and the other HD
as secondary master and CD-RW as secondary slave on the other channel?

Thanks in advance,
Marco

 

[Nick Burns]

OS as master on channel 1
Data hard drive as master on channel 2

CD Roms slave on channel 1
Bruner slave on channel 2

I like haveing my roms on different channels for disk to disk copy. It will
work any other way.

 

[LVTravel]

Some systems do not like the CDs and HDD on the same channel. While the
speed problem has been worked out for most equipment now (older equipment
would run at the speed of the slowest device when in PIO mode), I recommend
you still place the two HDDs on the Primary channel as Master/Slave (make
sure you use an 80 conductor cable) and the two CDs on the Secondary channel
as Master/Slave. The interface is still plenty fast enough to do a CD-ROM
to CD-R copy without any problems.

 

[Mike Hall]

AFAIK, it is not possible to directly copy from one cd to another if they
are on the same IDE cable..

 

[Nick Burns]

You can copy from one cd to another cd on the same channel, have did it for
years.

 

[Frank]

| Hi,
|
| I'm planning to build a new PC with XP and the os, I have two HD, 20G
for
| the OS and 40 G for data, one CD-R and one CD-RW, what's the best way
to set
| it up? OS HD as master and CD-R as slave on one IDE channel and the
other HD
| as secondary master and CD-RW as secondary slave on the other channel?
|
| Thanks in advance,
| Marco

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