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| 548539 | 2007-05-09 05:24:00 | What are the implications of having an IDE drive as secondary slave with a DVD writer as secondary master? I'm assuming it is better to have the DVD as master, and the HDD is the third drive in the system, basically being used as scratch data storage - i.e. no system files or programs. Anything I should klnow about? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 548540 | 2007-05-09 05:51:00 | A cd/dvd shouldnt be on the same ide as any IDE hdd. It can affect its performance. cd's and dvds should go on the same ide connections. And IDE hdd's should only go on the same ide connection as another hdd. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 548541 | 2007-05-09 05:51:00 | No problems with that at all, however, bear in mind that is the HDD is Ultra-ATA100 and the ROM drive is not, then the HDD bus will only run at the speed of the ROM drive, but if it is for scratch data, then this is no problem. You may also experience buffer under runs if writing a Disk in the ROM drive, but with current ROM's these days, it's usually nothing to worry about. | Dragonslayer (512) | ||
| 548542 | 2007-05-09 05:54:00 | It can affect its performance.Performance of the DVD or the HDD? | Tony (4941) | ||
| 548543 | 2007-05-09 05:56:00 | You may also experience buffer under runs if writing a Disk in the ROM drive, but with current ROM's these days, it's usually nothing to worry about.This box is basically going to be used as a file server, so the DVD writer will rarely if ever be used. In fact as I think about it, I might just remove it - although it would nice to have it available as a boot device in an emergency. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 548544 | 2007-05-09 05:59:00 | Performance of the DVD or the HDD? I would say the cd/dvd if theyre burners. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 548545 | 2007-05-09 06:02:00 | It's ok to be conservative but a modern ide controller can run 2 DMA devices at differing speeds. Newish DVD drives should be UDMA 4. | PaulD (232) | ||
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