ide order for hard drives and cdrom drives

[Alex Snow]

Hi.  Put the new drive on hdc and the cdrw or cdrom on hdb.  I say this
because if you copy cd's from your cdrom to the writer and the writer and
cdrom are on the same controler you lose performance.
hth.

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On Wed, 7 May 2003, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:

> Hi.  I looked in the archives here and could not find anybody's opinions
> on how I should go about doing this.
>
> My current setup is hda=40gb, hdc=40x-cdrw, hdd=16x-dvdrom.  I just
> purchased a 120gb hard drive.
>
> What my question relates to is should I add the 120gb hdd on hdb or
> should I put it on hdc and have one of the cdrom drives on hdb instead?
>
> Thanks.
>
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