With the newer systems and equipment it usually doesn't make any
difference.  As an aside, I usually put the cd-rom player on my sound
card's IDE controller if it has one (many do), and leave an open IDE
channel for any future devices (Zip, IDE tape, etc.).  Only the cd-rom
should be connected to the sound card though.

At 08:59 PM 3/30/99 , David Murtaugh wrote:

>I've got a 400 Mhz Pentium II system that I'm trying to add some items to.
>I've got a 6.4 gig Eide harddrive as a master on my first ide channel. I'm
>adding a 13 gig harddrive, a cd-rom player and a cd-rom burner to the
>other ide slots. I need to know if there is any particular order that
>these other items should be placed in (Channel 1-2, master-slave) that
>would give me the best performance. This is using busmastered drivers.
>None of the manuals of these items seem to mention anything about where
>their placement would be best other than making sure that each channel has
>one master and one slave item. The 6.4 gig harddrive is my main boot drive
>and will remain on the first channel as the master. Any other item can be
>configured for any position.

Doug Simmons

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