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302708 2004-12-13 21:31:00 new pc will be 2x SATA hard disks, so like a flash of lightning i was wondering about prefered set up for my 2 optical drives? set both up as master on individual channels or as master and slave on one channel? leaving 1 channel free(?) for wot eva(?)

cheers muchly, mery xmas and all
terry
bjocque (1064)
302709 2004-12-13 21:33:00 You probably wouldn't notice much difference not matter how you set it up.

However, if you have a DVD burner, I'd be inclined to set it up as Master on one of the channels.
somebody (208)
302710 2004-12-13 21:42:00 also with a dvd rom as most of the time setting a burner on a slave will cause it to skip and miss files / coppupt files or on a dvd rom skip and you will see a glitch on the playback screen noone (22)
302711 2004-12-13 21:52:00 cheers guys, my current thinking (which i just wanted to check) was setting them as master on individual channels would be the better option, free flow of data if ever disk to disk /ing - ifn thats allowed bjocque (1064)
302712 2004-12-13 23:04:00 I vaguely remember that if you want to copy a cd or dvd 'on the fly' it's faster if they're on seperate channels. Spout (6433)
302713 2004-12-13 23:31:00 Just as long as either a cd or dvd arent on the same channel as an IDE hdd, (which u wont be using for IDE hdd's anyway), its fine.

Either master on both IDE 1 and 2, or master and slave on primary or secondary IDE. It doesnt really matter.
Spacemannz (808)
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