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| 631111 | 2008-01-17 02:04:00 | If I have an ATA-100 HDD and an ATA-33 DVD writer on the same (secondary) IDE channel, is there any preferred master/slave relationship? I would normally make the DVD the master, but I wondered whether having an ATA-100 HDD would change that preference. The reason I am sharing a channel between a DVD and an HDD is that I already have two HDDs on the primary channel. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 631112 | 2008-01-17 02:21:00 | I'd make the HDD master but only if it was the boot drive, not just a data drive. Doesn't really matter hugely. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 631113 | 2008-01-17 03:04:00 | Thanks. The reason I asked was that my distant memory tells me that there was a time when it would have mattered - probably when CD-writers were new and much more temperamental than they are now. (How old does that make me??) BTW the HDD is not the boot drive. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 631114 | 2008-01-17 07:35:00 | Used to be that putting an ATA 100 hdd on the same cable as a ATA 33 optical drive would slow the hdd data transfer speed down to the optical drives speed, dont know if thats still true. | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 631115 | 2008-01-17 08:07:00 | Used to be that putting an ATA 100 hdd on the same cable as a ATA 33 optical drive would slow the hdd data transfer speed down to the optical drives speed, dont know if thats still true.Even if the HDD is operating and the optical drive is not? I could certainly believe it if the HDD and the optical drive were being accessed simultaneously. That was the sort of thing that made me pose the question in the first place, though. I wondered whether the master/slave set up would affect that. It's not a big deal though - the HDD is really a spare that I have in the machine because I have it available rather than because I really desperately need it. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 631116 | 2008-01-17 09:17:00 | Found this, might help www.tomshardware.com |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 631117 | 2008-01-17 09:46:00 | Found this, might help www.tomshardware.com I guess that sums it up... |
Tony (4941) | ||
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