put optical drives on same channell, but as far as i know you should'nt have
an optical and a hard drive on the same eide channel

Regards
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"Larry Gagnon" wrote in message
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I am about to build up an Athlon XP2500 computer. I will have one hard
disk, one CDRW-DVD combo drive and one floppy disk drive. How do most
of you connect the CDRW, i.e. to the same EIDE controller as the hard
drive (as slave and HD as master), or do you use the second EIDE
controller seperately?

Larry Gagnon
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Secondary. It's really not a good idea to put hard drives and optical
drives on the same IDE channel IMHO. When I first added a CD-RW burner
about 5 years ago, I had problems because I put it on the primary IDE
channel with the Hard Drive.

Joe