I personaly will put the 13G HDD as slave on IDE1, cd-rom as 2nd master on
IDE2 and cd burner as 2nd slave. I believe you should get best performance at
this config. I also suggest a HDD fan should be used in your case to cool down
your HDD.

J Qian

David Murtaugh wrote:

> I've got a 400 Mhz Pentium II system that I'm trying to add some items to.
> I've got a 6.4 gig Eide harddrive as a master on my first ide channel. I'm
> adding a 13 gig harddrive, a cd-rom player and a cd-rom burner to the
> other ide slots. I need to know if there is any particular order that
> these other items should be placed in (Channel 1-2, master-slave) that
> would give me the best performance. This is using busmastered drivers.
> None of the manuals of these items seem to mention anything about where
> their placement would be best other than making sure that each channel has
> one master and one slave item. The 6.4 gig harddrive is my main boot drive
> and will remain on the first channel as the master. Any other item can be
> configured for any position.
>
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