[clue-tech] ide advice

[dhahn]

The decision has more to do with which devices will be talking to each 
other the most.  The IDE chain only allows one device to "talk" at a 
time.  So, if you have a HD and a CD on the as master and slave on the 
same chain, their slowest communication will be with each other.  So, 
put the devices that will be "talking" together the most on separate chains.

By design, it is not supposed to matter which is master and which is 
slave.  However, de jure rule usually puts the HD as the master and the 
CD as the slave. 

In some cases, certain HD/CD combinations will act oddly.  So, unless 
you know your hardware rather well, plan to experiment for a bit.

-d


Adam bultman wrote:

>Angelo Bertolli wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.)
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>YMMV. 
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