Someone else can give you more detailed info, but for myself, I will not mix
fast and slow devices on same cable, I still believe that slow device (eg
CDROM) will slow fast device down if they are on same IDE channel.

Jun Qian
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Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 9:52 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] IDE Controller question.


> Hi group
>
> I have question about the primary and secondary controller.  I have two HD
(C
> and D),
> and I have CD-ROM (E), and CR-R/CR-RW (F).  The HD are on the primary
> controller as master & slave.  the CD-ROM and CD-R/CD-RW are on the
secondary
> controller as master & slave.  Since a controller can only read or write
at
> one time,  can I put my second HD on secondary controller as master and my
> CD-ROM on primary controller as slave?  If so, will copying from HD to HD
go
> faster?  will copying from CD-ROM to CD-R/CD-RW work faster?
>
>

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