Thanks for all of your replies.  Based on them, and advice from others I
know, I went ahead and bought an IDE HP-CD-Writer 8250i and installed as a
Slave to my CD-ROM and all transfers from the hard drives as well as
burning one data CD have gone without a hitch.  (I treat it gently, just to
be paranoid!)  So far I'm very pleased with the results and the Adaptec
software is quite easy to use.

Thanks again,

Bill Nussbaumer


At 08:26 AM 1/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Bill,
>
>I have almost the exact same system, BH6, Celeron @ 450, 2 hard drives on
>primary ide.  My CD-ROM is master on the secondary IDE, My HP 8100 CD-R is
>slave.  During the HP install it recommends that set up.  Works great for
>everything including copying CD's.  I haven't burned one single coaster with
>it.
>
>Ben Moore
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bill Nussbaumer"
>Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 11:46 AM
>Subject: [PCBUILD] Which IDE channels to use: CD-ROM/RWs and 2 HDs
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> Given my Abit BH6 motherboard has 2 EIDE controllers on-board, I need to
>> use all available positions with 2 Hard Drives, and both the CD-ROM and
>> CD/RW.  On which channels should I position each drive to address a
>primary
>> concern of reliability and a secondary concern of speed?

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