A simple newbie question about Hard Drives

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I have done some extensice searches, but for the most part, nobody was talking about external CD-Burners when it came to the subject of putting your

Primary IDE Master- O/S Hard Drive
Primary IDE SLave- Drive #2Audio FIles Drive

Secondary IDE Master - CD-ROm
Secondary IDE SLave - Not installed.

now with this configuration folks, since Im not copying anything like CD to CD, or even using an internal burner, does it really matter if my two drives are on the same IDE Cable as such>???

I'd really appreciate some info on this.
AM I at a disadvantage with this config? or is it really a minimal thing to worry about int he grande scheme of things???
 
MHO...

I would rather do this route :

Primary :
Master --> HD 1 (OS)
Slave --> CD-ROM

Secondary :
Master --> HD 2 (Audio data)

If you put HD 1 & HD 2 on the same line, it will affect the transfer data flow. I mean imagine that you'll push single cable to do both "read from HD1" and "write to HD2" when you're recording. It's okay, but somehow will be better to separate these tasks on two line... Hope I make sense... ;)
 
Re: MHO...

James Argo said:
I would rather do this route :

Primary :
Master --> HD 1 (OS)
Slave --> CD-ROM

Secondary :
Master --> HD 2 (Audio data)

If you put HD 1 & HD 2 on the same line, it will affect the transfer data flow. I mean imagine that you'll push single cable to do both "read from HD1" and "write to HD2" when you're recording. It's okay, but somehow will be better to separate these tasks on two line... Hope I make sense... ;)
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Agreed !
 
You know, this HDD and CDROM on the same channel appear to be common configurations around here. Can somebody point me in the direction of some technical performance data (or article) on doing this?

Everything I know so far about IDE tells me that putting a CDROM and a HDD on the same channel will adversely affect the performance of the HDD on that same channel.

If you put a CDROM and a HDD on the same channel the HDD will be forced to run at CDROM speed (ATA33). I don't understand this logic.

Can somebody help me out with this?
 
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