ok, i have a cd burner, cdrom and 1 hard drive....
should i make my harddrive the master on the primary IDE channel and then hook the cdrom and cdr up on the secondary channel together...
I heard that for cd recording, its not good to have your two cdroms on the same ide channel. i was told that i should have my harddrive and one of my cdroms on the primary ide channel and then have the remaining cdrom on the secondary channel as the master...
does anyone any experience with this.


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Put simply you want to avoid putting devices on the same channel that are likely to be used simultaneously. Since copy on-the-fly (CDROM to CDRW) is pointless (since around 8x) it makes sense to put HD as Primary Master and the CDRW as Secondary Master. If you can find a reason to keep the CDROM drive then putting it as a Slave to the device least likely to be used simultaeously is best. Putting a CD drive on as Slave to a HD shouldn't have any significant effect even when used simultaneously, it's just that HDs tend to use up the channel's bandwidth more so it can make more sense to give it it's own channel (ie no slave) whenever possible. The only thing you really want to avoid is putting 2 HDs on the same channel esp if they are likely to be used simultaneously. At the end of the day I doubt it makes much real diff, but technically it is best.
