Tazio Ceri wrote:
I have the following four drives in a machine I've just put together:
hard drive DVD/CD reader CD writer ZIP drive
The problem with EIDE bus is that both master and slave can only be reading or writing. Master cant write while slave is reading and vice versa. I do not think there is an universal way to put EIDE stuff together, just try it. My experience is that a CDROM connected at the same controller as the HD slows down a lot the installation of any OS, and there should be no problem with CDROM and CDRW on the same cable if you have enough ram to make a buffer. I have tried it up to 8X.
Tazio's suggestion may be better. Put the devices you will be using most frequently on separate buses. You may have to experiment to see if the hd and the writer can live in the same bus by creating a CD with both iso to CD-R and mkisofs to CD-R.Tazio Ceri wrote: -- Rafael