The primary channel on your mobo should have the hard drive alone with the
jumper on it set for solo drive (see your drive manufacturers manual for
jumper setting). There would be no primary slave. Most CD-RW manufacturers
say in their manuals that the CD-RW needs to be the master drive, but check
your mfg. manual.  Mine is set up with the CD-RW as secondary master, CD as
secondary slave, and the cable is plugged into the secondary channel on the
mobo.  On my ASUS mobo, the primary channel is the cable plug nearest the
front of the box and the secondary channel is right behind it.  Your mobo
config may be different.



Hi,
What would be the optimum configuration for 1-hard drive, 1-cdrom drive, and
1-cdrw drive?  Which should be primary slave, secondary master...etc.  for
optimum speed in copying/burning CDs?

Thanks
Dan Kucherich

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