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Hi folks,
I just installed a second hard drive. IDE primary has old hard drive on it as Master with an optical drive as slave, while the new hard drive is master on the second IDE cable with another optical drive as slave. My question: Is this a good configuration? I ran Partition Magic and managed to partition both drives the way I wanted to with the first IDE being C and E and the second IDE being D H and I. The two optical drives coming in with F and G drive letter assignments. All seems to be working well. Should I leave this arrangement alone or follow Power Quest's advice and put both hard drives on the same IDE cable (the drive with C (primary partition) as master and the drive with D (primary partition) as slave. Then on the second cable put both optical drives together. One optical is a Plextor DVD\RW and the other is a Pioneer DVD\CD Rom. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks, Axel. |
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Axel Beck wrote:
Hi folks, I just installed a second hard drive. IDE primary has old hard drive on it as Master with an optical drive as slave, while the new hard drive is master on the second IDE cable with another optical drive as slave. My question: Is this a good configuration? I ran Partition Magic and managed to partition both drives the way I wanted to with the first IDE being C and E and the second IDE being D H and I. The two optical drives coming in with F and G drive letter assignments. All seems to be working well. Should I leave this arrangement alone or follow Power Quest's advice and put both hard drives on the same IDE cable (the drive with C (primary partition) as master and the drive with D (primary partition) as slave. Then on the second cable put both optical drives together. One optical is a Plextor DVD\RW and the other is a Pioneer DVD\CD Rom. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks, Axel. You probably want to cable both hard drives together, and both optical drives together. See http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/id...erformance.htm for some of the issues. -- Frank GoBell |
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On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 17:48:55 -0700, Axel Beck
wrote: Hi folks, I just installed a second hard drive. IDE primary has old hard drive on it as Master with an optical drive as slave, while the new hard drive is master on the second IDE cable with another optical drive as slave. My question: Is this a good configuration? I ran Partition Magic and managed to partition both drives the way I wanted to with the first IDE being C and E and the second IDE being D H and I. The two optical drives coming in with F and G drive letter assignments. All seems to be working well. Should I leave this arrangement alone or follow Power Quest's advice and put both hard drives on the same IDE cable (the drive with C (primary partition) as master and the drive with D (primary partition) as slave. Then on the second cable put both optical drives together. One optical is a Plextor DVD\RW and the other is a Pioneer DVD\CD Rom. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks, Axel. If powerquest told you to put them both on the same channel, I am surprised. The hard drives tend to use the most traffic, so I usually recommend them always on separate channels. This way you max your throughput on each. Your configuration seems just fine. ---Atreju--- |
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The PC Guide (http://www.PCGuide.com)
Site Version: 2.2.0 - Version Date: April 17, 2001 =A9 Copyright 1997-2004 Charles M. Kozierok. All Rights Reserved.=20 Not responsible for any loss resulting from the use of this site. Please read the Site Guide before using this material. The article is over 3 years old, things change. That's one reason = for 80 wire 40 pin cables. I had my machine set up like the OP for 6 = months and had no issues. And I top posted too. =20 --=20 Just my 2=A2 worth, Jeff ________in response to________ "Frank GoBell" wrote in message = ... | You probably want to cable both hard drives together, and both optical | drives together. See | http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/id...erformance.htm for some of = the | issues. |=20 | --=81 |=20 | Frank GoBell |=20 |=20 | |
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