ide order for hard drives and cdrom drives

[Luke Davis]

If I recall correctly: the transfer speed of an IDE/EIDE chain, is limited
to the maximum speed of the slowest device on the chain.  Which means, if
you have a CDROM on the same controller channel as a hard drive, the hard
drive will have lower performance.

Someone correct me if I am wrong, as IDE these days may no longer work
that way.

Luke


On Wed, 7 May 2003 igueths at attbi.com wrote:

> Hi there. Well, I have a cdrw drive on hdc and I have had one on hdd with no
> problems. On a previous setup, I had hda=30 gb hdc=cdrom hdd=cdrw drive.
> Perhaps you may have a problem if you have 2 masters on the same ide
> controller, but other than that you should be fine.
> > 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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