Possible For This Setup to Work?

[Steve Lee]

One of my computers currently has a BX (100FSB, ATA66) mobo. I wish
to to be able to use two UDMA100 HD's with a PCI controller card. But
I also wish to be able to use one IDE CD-burner and one IDE CD-ROM.

I'm thinking that in order for me to have optimal HD performance, I
should put them on separate channels/ribbons connecting the HD's to
the ATA100 controller card and set them as Prim Master and Sec Master
respectively.

My question is then, would I be able to use say the CD-burner as the
Prim Slave and the CD-ROM as the Sec Slave and if so, (1) should I
connect them to the same ATA100 ribbons that the HD's are connected to
or (2) do I just connect the burner and the CD-ROM to the IDE ports 1
& 2 on the mobo using just the regular IDE ribbons?

The former method, (1), would pose a serious problem for me though
since the ATA100 ribbons that connect to the controller are not long
enough connect both the HD and the burner or the CD-ROM. So,
hopefully (2) will work. What do you guys think?

Also, with this setup, would it be possible to use two CD-burners?
TIA!

 

[Shep©]

One of my computers currently has a BX (100FSB, ATA66) mobo. I wish
to to be able to use two UDMA100 HD's with a PCI controller card. But
I also wish to be able to use one IDE CD-burner and one IDE CD-ROM.

I'm thinking that in order for me to have optimal HD performance, I
should put them on separate channels/ribbons connecting the HD's to
the ATA100 controller card and set them as Prim Master and Sec Master
respectively.

My question is then, would I be able to use say the CD-burner as the
Prim Slave and the CD-ROM as the Sec Slave and if so, (1) should I
connect them to the same ATA100 ribbons that the HD's are connected to
or (2) do I just connect the burner and the CD-ROM to the IDE ports 1
& 2 on the mobo using just the regular IDE ribbons?

The former method, (1), would pose a serious problem for me though
since the ATA100 ribbons that connect to the controller are not long
enough connect both the HD and the burner or the CD-ROM. So,
hopefully (2) will work. What do you guys think?

Also, with this setup, would it be possible to use two CD-burners?
TIA!

Try here,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/cdsetup.html
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/hard.html

I have my standard Cdrom player as a slave to my Master hard drive on
the Same IDE chain and my CDR/W drive as a Master on my 2nd hard drive
and my 2nd hard drive as a slave to it which I also use as a dual boot
with WinXP.
It's a myth that just having two drives of differing speeds on the
same ISE chain slows down the faster drive.This only occurs if both
drives are in use at the same time.
HTH




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[Dave]

One of my computers currently has a BX (100FSB, ATA66) mobo. I wish
to to be able to use two UDMA100 HD's with a PCI controller card. But
I also wish to be able to use one IDE CD-burner and one IDE CD-ROM.

I'm thinking that in order for me to have optimal HD performance, I
should put them on separate channels/ribbons connecting the HD's to
the ATA100 controller card and set them as Prim Master and Sec Master
respectively.

My question is then, would I be able to use say the CD-burner as the
Prim Slave and the CD-ROM as the Sec Slave and if so, (1) should I
connect them to the same ATA100 ribbons that the HD's are connected to
or (2) do I just connect the burner and the CD-ROM to the IDE ports 1
& 2 on the mobo using just the regular IDE ribbons?

The former method, (1), would pose a serious problem for me though
since the ATA100 ribbons that connect to the controller are not long
enough connect both the HD and the burner or the CD-ROM. So,
hopefully (2) will work. What do you guys think?

Also, with this setup, would it be possible to use two CD-burners?
TIA!

Deffinately use option 2.
Hd1 master ATA100 1
Hd2 master ATA100 2
CDRW master IDE 1
cd Master IDE 2

 

[Steve Lee]

On 02 Oct 2003, Steve Lee wrote: [snip]
(2) This is the obvious solution and suits me (pace Shep) since it allows
four devices running on individual IDE channels. I have a Promise controller
to which are attached two HDDs and my CD-RW is on the motherboard
IDE 1 and my CD-ROM on IDE2.

This is an ideal setup especially if the user is doing a lot of
burning/large file manipluations.Some PCI controller cards do support
Atapi devices but best to stick to the maker's recommendations as you
say

I can't see why not.

Me neither

First of all, thanks Shep, S.B. and Dave. for all your help. However,
I now have a few problems.

I went ahead and installed the new Lite-On burner and kept the old
burner in my system as well. So, I now have two burners in my system.
And so, as it stands now, this is the config:
Old HD1 master ATA100 1
New HD2 master ATA100 2
(connected to the PCI ATA100 controller)
New CD-RW master IDE 1
Old CD-RW master IDE 2
(connected to the mobo)

I checked the jumper settings, and they're all correct. But for some
reason, all my burner apps either don't recognize the new burner or
just recognizes it as a CD-ROM. Both drives are recognized in Windows
XP Pro and in Windows Explorer as well. Funny though, in Windows
Explorer, the new burner is labelled as "CD-RW Drive (F" and the old
burner as "CD Drive (G".

The older drive burns just fine using any apps, but it's the new one
that's giving me the problems. Any ideas on this one?

Also, my newly installed HD as HD2 on the PCI ATA100 controller card
is not being recognized at by XP. Any ideas on this one? Thanks for
your time and courtesy!