At 06:59 PM 3/30/99 ,  Dave 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.

There was a time when putting a fast hard drive and a slow CD Rom
drive on the same IDE channel would slow down the hard drive.  The
current BIOS versions that have been around since the advent of
Ultra DMA has fairly well removed these issues.   If it were me...  I
would put both hard drives on the Primary and the CD Rom drives
on the secondary.   The master and slave issue should not really
matter in this configuration.


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