I forgot to close by saying that if one must slave devices, the Master device should always be the fastest device. -Clint
----- Original Message ----- From: "Support-OrpheusComputing.com" No, not good. Your HD's should ALWAYS be the Master. Not doing so 'can' slow them down a lot. At best your optical drives are UDMA33 which means a slaved HD to an optical master on the same cable will only be UDMA33. There are some rare cases now of UDMA66 optical drives which wouldn't be as much of a slowdown for a UDMA/ATA100 HD, but it would be more-so for an ATA133 drive. A slaved HD can also slow down a Master'ed HD a little bit (on the same cable). Be sure you always use an 80 pin IDE cable for drives faster than UDMA/ATA66. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vernon Zigler" < I currently have a c drive divided into 4 partitions(c,f,g,h). A d drive. Both on the first controller. I have cd rom(e drive) on the second controller. Can I add another hard drive as a slave on the second controller? Thanks Vern ============= 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 =====================================================
