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CD & DVD burner on Primary/Secondary Master IDE channel
I highly doubt this matters much, but if you had a CD burner and a DVD
burner, which would you put on the Primary Master and Secondary Master? I'm considering installing these in a test machine I have and plan to install the DVD burner on the Primary Master and the CD burner on the Secondary Master. @drian. |
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:09:07 GMT, "@drian" wrote:
I highly doubt this matters much, but if you had a CD burner and a DVD burner, which would you put on the Primary Master and Secondary Master? I'm considering installing these in a test machine I have and plan to install the DVD burner on the Primary Master and the CD burner on the Secondary Master. @drian. So far as those device go, it makes no difference. "Primary" and "Secondary" are arbitrary designations, they're identical in operation but in the past many motherboards were restricted to trying to boot from the primary HDD. Today that's the likely default still, but not a limitation. The larger issue is where the source data is coming from. Whichever drive is more likely to have the HDD as a source for burning should be on the other, opposite IDE channel. Dave |
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"kony" wrote in message
... So far as those device go, it makes no difference. "Primary" and "Secondary" are arbitrary designations, they're identical in operation but in the past many motherboards were restricted to trying to boot from the primary HDD. Today that's the likely default still, but not a limitation. Thought as much. The larger issue is where the source data is coming from. Whichever drive is more likely to have the HDD as a source for burning should be on the other, opposite IDE channel. Well, the HDDs will be on seperate SATA channels (seperate controller), so the burners will be on their Master IDE channels alone. I just wondered for a second whether the high-volume data drive (DVD burner) would benefit from being Primary Master. Probably not. @drian. |
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