Two drives, same controller or different ones

[Guest]

I am configuring a new system and started wondering which on-board controllers I should use for what. I have two hard drives and a CD and a CD R/W. Should I put one hard Drive on each on-board controller? Or should I put both the drives on one controller and both the CDs on the other? Is there any performance to be gained by doing it a particular way? One thing I want for sure is to have the hard drives be labled as C: and D:, I'm using Win98.
Thanks!!!

-Clovis

 

[FatBurger]

The hard drives should automatically be C: and D:, although you can change this.

Primary Master: Main hard drive
Primary Slave: CD-ROM
Secondary Master: CD-RW
Secondary Slave: Second hard drive



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[lhgpoobaa]

ive got a different setup to Mr fatburger, and it works fine

primary master: ibm 60GXP ata100
primary slave : ibm 16GP ata33
secondary master: 52x cd-rom
secondary slave: ricoh CD-RW

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[killall]

fastes would be to have you primary hard drive as master 0 second hard drive master 1 cd/rw to slave 0 and any other drive to slave 1 having both hard drives as master giving them optimum bandwidth while the drives that dont require it and need to get info from the hard drives (ie cd/rw) in slave...

if in doubt blame microsoft...

 

[Guest]

NT

 

[FatBurger]

ive got a different setup to Mr fatburger, and it works fine

Actually, here's how I have my drives on my KT7a-RAID setup:

Primary Master: CD-ROM
Primary Slave: None
Secondary Master: CD-RW
Secondary Slave: Backup hard drive
RAID 1 Master: 1st hard drive
RAID 1 Slave: None
RAID 2 Master: 2nd hard drive
RAID 2 Slave: None



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[Guest]

It all depends what you're going to use your drives for. If the second HD is for a backup or an alternate OS then it wouldn't hurt anything to put it as the primary slave (esp. in scenario 2). But if you're keeping your digital video on there, or swap file, or some other scenario where you have heavy use on both C: and D: at the same time, then it should go on it's on controller.

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[lhgpoobaa]

yup.
primary slave = 16gig ata33 5400rpm 512kb cache HDD.
its still got good capacity, but its just storage.
utilites & 9gig of mp3's.
speed with this drive isnt essential.


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