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From: "Support-OrpheusComputing.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: PCWorks: CD ROM and hard drive on same controller
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.
It's not clear from the above whether you are advocating placing the second
disk on the same IDE channel as the CD ROM or the master disk.
As a cable can only handle data from one source at a time, and you are
more likely to transfer data between disks, it makes more sense to have
master
and second disks on seperate cables.
Also your swap file should be on a physically different disk to C (not just
a
different partition). So putting it on D on your second IDE cable would be
good,
or better still create a small extra partition after D and put it there
instead.
--
Graham
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