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When adding a hard drive
With one DVD/CD burner. Is it better to set the added hard drive as a "slave" on the same IDE channel as the existing hard drive or set the DVD/CD burner as a "slave" to one of the hard drives and run the additional hard drive on it's own channel? |
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When adding a hard drive
It is further alleged that on or about Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:20:28
-0700, in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, the queezy keyboard of SHRED spewed the following: | |With one DVD/CD burner. | |Is it better to set the added hard drive as a "slave" on the same IDE |channel as the existing hard drive or set the DVD/CD burner as a "slave" |to one of the hard drives and run the additional hard drive on it's own |channel? It is best to have the slave on your primary. It is not recommended to have an optical drive on the same channel as a hard drive as the controller adjusts itself to the speed of the hard drive and degrades performance. http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article...25,pg,2,00.asp -- -nos1eep |
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When adding a hard drive
It is further alleged that on or about Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:20:31
-0500, in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, the queezy keyboard of nos1eep spewed the following: |It is further alleged that on or about Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:20:28 |-0700, in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, the queezy keyboard of SHRED spewed the following: | || ||With one DVD/CD burner. || ||Is it better to set the added hard drive as a "slave" on the same IDE ||channel as the existing hard drive or set the DVD/CD burner as a "slave" ||to one of the hard drives and run the additional hard drive on it's own ||channel? | |It is best to have the slave on your primary. It is not recommended to |have an optical drive on the same channel as a hard drive as the |controller adjusts itself to the speed of the optical drive and degrades |performance. |http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article...25,pg,2,00.asp minor edit. -- -nos1eep |
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When adding a hard drive
imo slaved with the other hd
"SHRED" wrote in message news:UYu0g.633$QP4.201@fed1read12... With one DVD/CD burner. Is it better to set the added hard drive as a "slave" on the same IDE channel as the existing hard drive or set the DVD/CD burner as a "slave" to one of the hard drives and run the additional hard drive on it's own channel? |
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When adding a hard drive
In article , nos1eep
wrote: | || ||With one DVD/CD burner. || ||Is it better to set the added hard drive as a "slave" on the same IDE ||channel as the existing hard drive or set the DVD/CD burner as a "slave" ||to one of the hard drives and run the additional hard drive on it's own ||channel? | |It is best to have the slave on your primary. It is not recommended to |have an optical drive on the same channel as a hard drive as the |controller adjusts itself to the speed of the optical drive and degrades |performance. |http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article...25,pg,2,00.asp minor edit. This guide is a little more reasonable: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf.htm "Independent Master/Slave Device Timing: Hard disk controllers on modern systems support running the master and slave device at different speeds, if one supports faster transfer modes than the other. Some systems, however, especially older ones, do not. If you are using two devices with radically different maximum transfer rates, and the chipset doesn't support independent timing, you will slow down the faster device to the speed of the slower one." If the two devices you put on a cable, tend to be used independently from one another, and the chipset is modern, then there is little to fear from mixing a hard drive and an optical disk drive, on an 80 wire cable. Paul |
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