the GREAT debate

[flywheel]

My friend and I were having a big debate the other day over what is the best way to run a CD Rewriter in your system. I've read both ways:

Primary Master- HDD
Primary Slave- CD

Secondary Master-CDRW

Or

Primary Master-HDD
Primary Slave-none

Secondary Master-CDRW
Secondary Slave-CD

Which is correct? He says the data transfer is better if you run the hard drives on the same IDE channel and the CD's on the other. Some reports say you should run the CD on a separate IDE channel that the rewriter. At this point, I don't know what to think. BTW...this friend is very well educated in computer hardware...that's why I take his word for things (mostly).

<font color=red>all this HARDware nonsense is giving me a headache!</font color=red> :frown:

 

[Toejam31]

<A HREF="http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confTiming-c.html" target="_new">http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confTiming-c.html</A>

And ...

<A HREF="http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf_Performance.htm" target="_new">http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf_Performance.htm</A>

This should put an end to the GREAT debate. LOL!

Toejam31

<font color=red>My Rig:</font color=red> <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=6847" target="_new">http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=6847</A>
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<font color=purple>"Procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."</font color=purple>

 

[lhgpoobaa]

PM: ata-100 hdd
PS: ata-33 hdd
SM: ata-66 dvd
SS: dma 12x10x32x cdrw

works fine for me, even with on the fly dvd -> burner copies.

Excuse me for a moment. I need to drive my ergonomic wheely chair over a sheet of bubble wrap!

 

[scamtrOn]

i did't read the other posts, but you have the correct setup.

<font color=red><b><i>you</i> keep talking and i'll pretend i'm listening.</b></font color=red>