On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, dieter wrote:
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.
The fastest combination is indeed disks together and cdroms together, but with a zipdrive ... ?
Maybe it's the best to connect the device you use most secondary master and if that's one of the cdroms the other cdrom secondary slave. You can try all possibilities and test for a difference in performance ;)
What I have been doing with my system is to have an ATA66 PCI card for the hard drives, and use the motherboard controller for the cdrom drives, with each device being the master on each channel. Or, on another system that I have, I use the motherboard controller for the hard drives and a SCSI controller for a SCSI cdrom drive. It's a little bit more involve than working with what you already got, but it's a nice performance increase. Christopher Reimer