Best configuration of drives?

At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2.
Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is
best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the best
arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the
opticals as slaves?
TIA

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At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2.
Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is
best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the best
arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the
opticals as slaves?
TIA


Personally, I'd put the HDDs on seperate cables along
with an optical drive. Not sure if master/slave really
matters. Try to put your burner optical on the other
cable from where you place the files to be burned.

So:

Cable A: HDD + optical
Cable B: HDD + optical

I used to think that you shouldn't have two drives on a
single cable, but apparently that's no longer an issue
(according to those who have corrected me about that
here in the discussion group).

Great, thanks for the info

"Toshi1873" wrote in message
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In article Qt4nc.16$44.14@newsfe1-win,
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At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2.
Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is
best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the
best
arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the
opticals as slaves?
TIA


Personally, I'd put the HDDs on seperate cables along
with an optical drive. Not sure if master/slave really
matters. Try to put your burner optical on the other
cable from where you place the files to be burned.

So:

Cable A: HDD + optical
Cable B: HDD + optical

I used to think that you shouldn't have two drives on a
single cable, but apparently that's no longer an issue
(according to those who have corrected me about that
here in the discussion group).

"GTS" wrote in message
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At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2.
Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is
best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the
best
arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the
opticals as slaves?

The 2nd HDs as master and opticals as slaves unless one of the opticals is
illbehaved.

"Toshi1873" wrote in message
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In article Qt4nc.16$44.14@newsfe1-win,
says...
At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2.
Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is
best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the
best
arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the
opticals as slaves?
TIA


Personally, I'd put the HDDs on seperate cables along
with an optical drive. Not sure if master/slave really
matters. Try to put your burner optical on the other
cable from where you place the files to be burned.

That's probably not important.

"Slug" wrote in message
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On Sat, 8 May 2004 12:13:50 -0400, Toshi1873
wrote:


Cable A: HDD + optical
Cable B: HDD + optical

That would be a cabling nightmare. In fact it is practically
impossible to do due to the physical placement of the drives in the
case. HDD's usually go in the bottom of the case in 3 1/4" brackets
and cdrom drives in the top of the case in 51/2" brackets. How are you
going to cable all those drives using your configuration without
moving the HDD's to the top of the case?

So you're gonna pack the HDs next to each other where they'll burn each
other up???
The cabling problem is tractable.

Personally, I put my two
HDD's on primary IDE as master and slave and then put my DVD and CDRW
drives on the secondary IDE as master/slave. I expect if there is a
perfromance hit, and I do emphasize "if", it is negligible.

That is likely true for most cases.

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At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2.
Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is
best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the best
arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the
opticals as slaves?
TIA


Personally, I'd put the HDDs on seperate cables along
with an optical drive. Not sure if master/slave really
matters. Try to put your burner optical on the other
cable from where you place the files to be burned.

That's probably not important.

Actually, it can be problematic when you access the opt. drive
that is on the same cable with the source drive while burning.

On Mon, 10 May 2004 20:59:15 +0200, "Folkert Rienstra"
wrote:

Actually, it can be problematic when you access the opt. drive
that is on the same cable with the source drive while burning.

Why?

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At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2.
Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe
it is
best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is
the best
arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and
the
opticals as slaves?
TIA


Personally, I'd put the HDDs on seperate cables along
with an optical drive. Not sure if master/slave really
matters. Try to put your burner optical on the other
cable from where you place the files to be burned.

That's probably not important.

Actually, it can be problematic when you access the opt. drive
that is on the same cable with the source drive while burning.

Nope, generally that works with no difficulty as the bandwidth usage is
minimal.
I suppose that there could be a special compatibility case but in general it
works fine.

"Bob" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 10 May 2004 20:59:15 +0200, "Folkert Rienstra" wrote:

Actually, it can be problematic when you access the opt. drive
that is on the same cable with the source drive while burning.

Why?

Because it may block the source drive for several seconds, spinning-up
the motor/disk to speed and seeking to the desired data and transfer.