I currently have a homebrew system with PIII 500, 128MB, on an ABIT BE6
(rev 1) motherboard.  Everything is working nicely, but I need more hard
drive space.  I just ordered a 45GB IBM 7200 RPM drive to go with the
current drives, a 20GB UDMA 66 5400RPM WD drive, and a 4.3G EIDE drive.
Currently, the 4 GB drive is primary master on the IDE controller, and
the 20 GB is on the first UDMA controller, alone. The machine boots
Windows 98SE from the 4gb drive, the 20 GB holds linux, and is mainly
reserved for video/graphics editing.

My question is where to put the new IBM drive.  Should it be master or
slave on the UDMA controller?  I've always heard that the fastest drive
should be master, and use the other as slave.  I want the fastest
possible configuration, as I will use the 45GB drive to capture video
through a pinnacle dc10+ card.  (Yes, I know, UDMA 66 drives aren't as
fast as SCSI, and there are some occasional problems with frame
dropping, but only 2-3 per half hour, well within my tolerances.)

Thanks
Glen Sagers

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