Connecting cables

Use the cable ends for Master settings. Set the drive jumpers accordingly (MA, SL, CS). Slave drives are connected to the middle of the cable.

It is unadvisable to have the CD-ROM / DVD / CD-RW drives on the same cable. Unfortunately, putting either of these drives on the same cable as an HDD will probably reduce HDD performance.

I would set-up:

Master channel 1 - HDD
Slave channel 1 - DVD
Master channel 2 - CR/RW

Always connect system drive (C to master channel 1.

You don't have to have a 3.5" floppy as boot. The boot drive can be set to CD-ROM on BIOS. Boot from the Win98 disk.



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You would usually put the most used ATA33 (CD drive) on Master 2, but I'm not sure if putting a CD/RW on the same channel as your HDD is a good idea.

Here's one for you. <A HREF="http://www.abit.nl/english/product/motherboards/bx133.htm " target="_new">Abit BX133 RAID</A> This one has ATA100. I've got 1 x HDD on Master 3 (ATA100), 2 x HDDs on Master/Slave 4 (RAID 0), CD-ROM on Master 1 (ATA 33) and CD/RW on Master 2. No device conflicts!

Depending on what CPU combo or chipset you use/want, this is a decent option.

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Same setup here.

HDD as master on Primary (obviously ).
CDRW as slave on Primary.
DVD as Master on Secondary.

Of the combinations I tried, this gave best performance and most reliable CD copying.