20 Jun
2001
20 Jun
'01
16:15
Rafael Herrera wrote:
How about:
IDE0: hard drive DVD/CD reader
IDE1: CD writer ZIP drive
You may want to duplicate a CD, so keeping them in separate channels may allow faster transfers.
That's actually how I have them at the moment for just the reason you suggest, but I wasn't at all sure that was the best arrangement. It also stresses the cables a bit since they have to span from the 3 1/2" bays to the 5 1/4" bays. The motherboard manual claims that it might slow down the hard drive to have a CD drive on the same channel, but I don't entirely believe them, especially since the manual was written in Chinglish. Paul