[clue-tech] ide advice

[Adam bultman]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> I would like advice on how to set up my IDE drives.  I am about to add
> a new hard drive to my system.  Do I slave one hard drive off another,
> or do I slave my CD drives off of the hard drives?  Which is
> safer/better?  I will have 2 hard drives, a DVD/CDR combo, and a DVDR
> drive.  I think I'm going to be using the 80-wire IDE cables all
> around, since it seems to be the safest thing to do.
>
> Angelo
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While I'm no expert, I've been told to put CDROMs together and hard
drives together.  Allegedly putting a CDROM on a hard drive IDE chain
will slow down the IDE drive (although I haven't been able to prove
this, nor have I ever really tried.)

YMMV. 

Adam
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