On 9 Mar 2003, at 10:28, apiscopo wrote:

> It has always troubled me as to how best arrange 4 items on
> the Primary and Secondary IDE buses.  We all agree that
> the Hard Drive should be the Master on the Primary IDE bus.
> But, what about the other 3 things a PC can have (all internal):
> a Zip Drive, a CD-ROM, and a CD-R.  Which, in your opinion,
> based on your experience, have you found to work the best.
> In anticipation of some questions:
>   I am running Windows 2000 Pro., 800 Mhz, 256 MByte RAM.
>   Just a good generic clone. thanks, in advance of your response.
> p.s.  I promise to post the results of your responses.
> Armond Piscopo
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  Assuming I only have one hard drive in the machine and that I've finally
gotten an IDE CD-R (neither of them likely to be true amongst my current
equipment), my concern would be to avoid under-running the CD-R buffer and
writing unusable CDs.
  So I'd put the CD-R and CD-ROM on different channels (in case I want to
copy from one to the other), and I'd want the CD-R to be the master device
on the channel it's on.  The Zip drive can have whatever's left.

David Gillett

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