Newbie question(about hard driver)

[UnSan]

Hello all, I am wondering which one of the following configuration would give me best overall performance.

My mother board is k7s5a, and it has two ide channel.

I have 2 hard driver, and 2 cd-rom (assume that they have the same speed)

Should I connect them using:

Method 1:

Primary Master = hard driver
Primary Slave = cd-rom

Secondary Master = hard driver
Secondary Slave = cd-rom

or

Method 2:

Primary Master = hard driver
Primary Slave = hard driver

Secondary Master = cd-rom
Secondary Slave = cd-rom

which one would give me better off performance?

thanx in advance.....

 

[elzt]

Method 2.

 

[DaveP]

2

Peace comes only after absolute victory

 

[Teq]

Assuming one of those CDs is a writer...

IDE 0 -- primary master-- hard disk 1
IDE 1 -- primary slave -- hard disk 2

IDE 2 -- secondary master -- CD-Reader
IDE 3 -- secondary slave -- CD-Writer

Saves a lot of I/o mode switching in the controller.





<b>(</b>It ain't better if it don't work.<b>)</b>

 

[RCPilot]

2 also.

If it ain't broke, take it apart & see why not!

 

[Crashman]

Actually people are giving you the specs to make your HARD DRIVES perform best, but #2 would be extremely bad for CD to CD "on the fly" coppies. If you plan to do a lot of CD to CD copies, I suggest:

1. Hard drive C:
2. CD-Rom

3. CD-RW
4. Hard Drive D:

That puts your CD devices on separate channels to prevent buffer underruns (or correction under Burn Proof).

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