If I recall correctly: the transfer speed of an IDE/EIDE chain, is limited to the maximum speed of the slowest device on the chain. Which means, if you have a CDROM on the same controller channel as a hard drive, the hard drive will have lower performance. Someone correct me if I am wrong, as IDE these days may no longer work that way. Luke On Wed, 7 May 2003 igueths at attbi.com wrote: > Hi there. Well, I have a cdrw drive on hdc and I have had one on hdd with no > problems. On a previous setup, I had hda=30 gb hdc=cdrom hdd=cdrw drive. > Perhaps you may have a problem if you have 2 masters on the same ide > controller, but other than that you should be fine. > > Hi. I looked in the archives here and could not find anybody's opinions > > on how I should go about doing this. > > > > My current setup is hda=40gb, hdc=40x-cdrw, hdd=16x-dvdrom. I just > > purchased a 120gb hard drive. > > > > What my question relates to is should I add the 120gb hdd on hdb or > > should I put it on hdc and have one of the cdrom drives on hdb instead? > > > > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
