What is the best way/combination to connect various devices to the IDE channels?
Should I put harddrives on one channel and CD drives on another using an 80 strand and 40 strand cable respectively (or all 80 strand cables)? I only suggest this because I have heard that transfer rates will slow to the rate of the slowest device on the channel…
My hardware:
2 ATA 100 40 gig HHDs
Pioneer 16x DVDrom
Ricoh MP716A CDR/RW 16x10x32
P4 1.6 Asus P4B 512 Mb SDRAM
