Ian Porter wrote:
> My question - if I hook up a recent model 16x DVD drive as slave to my
> HDD, (which is on an 80 wire cable)  am I likely to hamper the HDD's
> performance in any way?

To the best of my knowledge no it shouldn't. It would be like adding
anything else to the mix. You could always to a performance test before and
after to see if there would be a drop.

> I'd prefer to use the DVD on IDE0 if possible

Don't think you can do this. The primary drive has to reside in the IDE 0
slot with the DVD being IDE 1 if on the primary IDE connection or you may
have a boot situation where the system can't find the OS. Have you tried
cable select for the hardware?

The raid thing is nice but as you said, it does slow things down with boot
up. Besides, if you were running a information critical business Raid would
be the way to go due to the speed. One drive and read the other could write
or you could mirror the bag in case of a system crash.

Sincerely,

Frank Suszka
netTek Computers
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