IDE configuration

[dpaige]

I'm about to put together my new PC. I want to make sure I have a good IDE configuration. I was panning to put my DVD-Rom and the BURNER on one cable and the Hard Drive and floppy on another. How does that sound? Should I put the Burner and hard drive on the same cable? And which should I make th eslave and master? Thanks.

Dpaige

 

[camieabz]

Always put your main HDD (C on IDE channel 1 master.

Your floppy drive is on a seperate controller from everything else. If you look on the mobo, you'll see a socket with FDD on it.

Put the most used other device on IDE channel 2 master and if possible keep your CD drives off the same channel as the HDD for performance.


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[wapaaga]

you proabollay want to make you cd bruner the master so that you have good siganl at all times but it disen't matter as much know with burner proof

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[FatBurger]

True, except that you don't want your CD reader and burner on the same controller, as it'll screw up CD on-the-fly copying.

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[wapaaga]

that is true but it is better to have it on the same channle then to have one of them on the hard drive channel

<font color=red>Gasoline + Fire</font color=red> Can be a lot of fun

 

[Toejam31]

Not with Burn-proof, dude.

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[FatBurger]

He didn't say if he has burn-proof


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[Toejam31]

True, true ... he didn't. I was just pointing out, that if he does, it wouldn't be necessary to put the optical devices on two separate channels in order to eliminate problems when copying on-the-fly. That's all.

See ya ...

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