[iyonix-support] Re: Connections for 4 IDE drives
- From: "David J. Ruck" <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:53:43 +0100
On 2 Apr 2007 Steven Pampling <steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02 Apr, David R Lane <D_Lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If you have two hardrives, one CDRW and one DVDRW what is the
> > best way of connecting them?
>
> Connect the two faster devices (HD's) on one IDE line and the two slower
> devices (DVD and CD) on the other line. A combination of a slow and fast
> device on any line will result in slower access for the fast device.
>
> Connect the newer of the two devices as Master in each case. (Newer
> controllers on the device tend to be a better bet.)
It doesn't seem to make any discernable difference in the Iyonix.
I experimented with the Iyonixs standard HD, and two new identical 80GB
drives, one as slave to the standard HD on one IDE channel, and the other in
a caddy as slave to the CD Writer on the other. There was no access speed
difference between, showing that the presence the slower CD Writer (now
replaced with a DVD writer did not affect the second channel.
> In the event of one of the two lines having a problem reverse the master
> slave settings.
It wont make any difference which way round a CD and DVD writer are. My
arrangement has the writer as master and the caddy as slave, as if the disc
is out of the caddy the system works happily without a slave, but wouldn't
recognise a slave if a master had been removed.
Cheers
---Dave
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