Where did you hear that? In most typical cases, hard drives should always be the master, albeit PRI or SEC IDE port. Making a 2nd HD a slave to a CDROM drive on the SEC IDE port; benchmarks show decreased performance.
If it was a CDRW drive; sometimes CDRW drives must be the master on the SEC IDE port, sometimes they don't need to be. Depends on the CDRW drive. Using your analogy: >>Given the fact, that we have 2 horses and 2 super-chickens, I think it's >>obvious why we put the horses on the first hall and the chickens at the >>second. This is exactly why the HD (horse) should be the master and the CDROM drive (chicken) be the slave. This is also why one device per channel (port) is desirable, and a controller card is best to use if a mobo only has 2 IDE ports and you wish to add another HD if you already have an existing HD and CDROM drive. IDE devices always work best being a 'stand alone' on an IDE port. If they are not, even regardless of how they are 'jumpered', performance decreases. Doug, since it's no big deal to change them around, test it yourself. Jump the new HD as the SEC master and the CDROM drive as the SEC slave, and run a benchmark (with SiSoft Sandra for example). Then reverse them (being sure to change the jumpers accordingly and remove them both from the device manager first) and run the test again. You may get a more accurate test by 'copying' a ~100mb or so file size, then compare the times. FYI, a quick random search shows: "i.e. if there is a CD-ROM drive on the cable you are putting it on, you will want to change the CD-ROM drive to slave and set the new hard drive as master." http://www.basichardware.com/HowTo_Install_Hard_Drive.html -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09.10.02 Sender: OrpheusComputing.com Time: 04:58 > Are these IDE drives? Probably. > it should be the master on the SEC IDE port, then the CDROM as the > slave. No. The disk will not work at full speed. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
