I currently have a CDROM and master on the secondary channel, with an Acer
burner as slave on same channel (per Acer's instructions).  This arrangement
works perfectly (ooops, wrong word for a wintel system) okay for me.

> >
> I >
> While researching the issues surrounding CD re-writable technology an old
> archived PC-Build post led me to an article that claimed the following:
>
> > To minimize the possibility of buffer underruns, you should not connect
the
> recorder to the same IDE-channel as your intended source; IDE is
> notoriously poor at multitasking on a single channel. Usually, the hard
> disk is connected to the primary IDE channel and the CD-ROM drive is
hooked
> to the secondary IDE channel.
>
> My questions are these.
>
> 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?
>


Ian Carmichael

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