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Setting up Devices on IDE Channels

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by etoile 1 view

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I wish to set up two hard drives, a CDRom and a CD-R/RW on my system. Which is the ideal combination of Primary/Secondary IDE's and master/slave?
I have an ASUS CUSL2 MB (ATA100 capable), 2x ATA66 20 Gig HDD (7200 rpm), 48x CDROM, Ricoh 6x4x24x CDR/RW.
I may be changing one of these HDD to a larger 40+ Gig ATA100 drive. Would this alter the configuration?

Thanks in advance.

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by roland63

Common configuration for YOUR type of setup;

Primary IDE - Master Hard Drive AND Slave Hard Drive.

Secondary IDE - CDRom Drive (as Master) and CDRW Drive as (slave).

Good luck.

by dcosgrove

Unfortunately, if you change on of the 66 for an ata 100, both will still run at ata66. You could buy an additional controller for the two 66's and put the 100 ont the embedded ata100.

by william jay

Proper Configuration, for now:

HD1 + HD2 = Primary Master and Slave

Cd Burner = Secondary Master
Cd Reader = Secondary Slave

And turn off AutoInsertNotification for the CDs, especially the CD Burner ...

by etoile

I currently have the 2 HDD on IDE 1 as master/slave and the CDR/RW / CDRom on IDE 2 as suggested by most ...

I have access to a PCI IDE controller card with two additional ATA 100 IDE channels.

Would my system benefit if I had all devices on their own IDE channel?

by ridire

Side note: If you start getting buffer under runs when burning from a disk image, put the burner and the drive you are using to hold images on the same controller. The speeds you are using and new hardware should prevent this, but some of us with older drives and burners can benefit from this CD/R media-wasting experience!

--Paul

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