IDE connect for ATA100 HD, Zip Drive, DVD, CDRW

[BobMcIntyre]

What's the best setup, with 2 IDE channels only for the following (in W2K):
1. ATA100 Hard drive
2. Zip drive (250)
3. DVD drive
4. CDRW drive

A. One of my computers came with 1 & 2 on the primary channel, and 3 & 4 on the secondary.
B. But Micron set up my other computer with 1 & 3 on the primary and 2 & 4 on the secondary.

In configuration A, the zip drive goes to PIO only (Iomega says that's the deal for zip drives with ATA100 cable). The other 3 drives are Ultra-DMA.
In configuration B, all drives are Ultra DMA-enabled.

Any recommendations?
Thanks.

[CWelker73]

I would have my hdd primary master, zip primary slave, dvd secondary master and cdrw secondary slave. I am quite sure that your bootable drive has to be primary master anyway, and if your zip drive has to be on the primary channel, I guess that takes care of that. As far as your secondary goes, you can probably swap them and see which works better.




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[JL275]

I personally have a setup like configuration A. Everything runs optimal according to Sandra 2001. Primary Master should be the hard drive, Zip as Primary Slave, DVD Secondary Master, CDRW as Secondary Slave.

[tjaymadison]

Assumptions:

Your mobo is fairly new and supports device independent timing on the IDE channels

My recommendations:

IDE Primary
• Master -- HD
• Slave -- Zip

IDE Secondary
• Master -- CD-RW
• Slave -- DVD

Reasons:

1. Zip will not run at ATA speed(s) regardless of its position
2. Burns will be successful more often when made from a hard drive image
3. Many RW conflicts are avoided when it is configured as master


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[This message has been edited by tjaymadison (edited 06-19-2001).]