The old advice was to keep the fast hard drives off the same channel as the
slow CDs. I have no idea what is actually faster.
I have a disk controller card in my system so that I can run disks larger
than 120G. I haven't noticed a change in speed either way since putting it
in.
Good luck sorting it out,
-jeff
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chuck Norcutt
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..I'd recommend that you place one hard drive on each of the controllers
and use the second channel on each to support your CD and DVD drives which
are less likely to be running in parallel with both drives. You may be able
to configure the optical drives such that they're on a controller opposite
from the hard drive that is most likely to be operating at the time. eg;
burning back up images from drive X to CD.
Chuck Norcutt
Jez Cunningham wrote:
> Sounds like a good solution - although I'll add it to my to-do list...
> (Better check if I've got a slot free too... ) Anyone else found this
> or a similar recofig to be beneficial in practice?
> cheers
> jez
>
> On 8/18/06, Bart Wientjes <bartjew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Jez,
>>
>>Here's my two cents:
>>
>>Get a PCI expansion card with an extra IDE controller, and hook your
>>CDDVDReW devices up to that. Preferrrably with two cables.
>>It is most likely that the mother bord has one controller on board
>>with two channels (and thus two connectors). Connect each drive to
>>its own channel with its own cable.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Bart
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