will this cause a problem? hard drive set to slave..??

[bizzy420]

i wanna put another drive in my pc, but id have to share the ide with the hard drive. the onyl way it'll fit is if the hd is a slave drive, and the dvd is the master, will this cause any problems? or slow down the hd?

 

[Xtasy0]

the HD will be slowed down to the speed of the dvd-rom(ata66), which sucks if you have an ata100/133 drive, but if its an old drive then it wont matter much.

why not put cd-rom/cd-rw/dvd-rom on one cable and two HD's on the other? or do you have too many devices?

 

[bizzy420]

exactly, i have too many devices. i had an old ass dvd drive, but i got a new dvd writer, and i didnt want to use the dvd writer to rip.

 

[SpuD]

You could probably get higher quality rips with the dvd writer

 

[bizzy420]

spud are u serious? i thought that it didnt matter if it was jsut used for ripping.

 

[RoyalEF]

I don't think the quality of the rip will change much drive to drive (unless there is something really wrong with a drive). The speed/reliability of the rip might improve.

SO does this mean you have three cd-rom type drives, or is there a zip in there somewhere. You should try to keep hard drives on one IDE channel and CD-Rom on the other. It can bite into performance to mix them.

I don't know if there is any disadvantage to a HDD being slave and not master. Technically speaking, I just don't know if the master performs duties on the bus or not. Normally your boot HDD would be the Master and subsequent HDD the slave.

 

[Asus]

The Drive should not slow down to 66, it will still perform at 133.
Mixing ATA66 and ATA133 on the same channel will not make them run the same speed unless they are communicating with eachother.

What drive setup do you have? How many HDD,Optical drives?

 

[Asus]

"Independent Master/Slave Device Timing: Hard disk controllers on modern systems support running the master and slave device at different speeds, if one supports faster transfer modes than the other. Some systems, however, especially older ones, do not. If you are using two devices with radically different maximum transfer rates, and the chipset doesn't support independent timing, you will slow down the faster device to the speed of the slower one."

If you have 2 harddrives and 2 optical drives try to keep them on separate channels. If you mix the drives what happens is the Controller has to talk to each device individually which slows down performance.
Burning from CD-rom(SL) to CD-rw(SL) on different channels while moving files from Harddrive(MA) to harddrive(MA) may give you a buffer underrun for the cd you are burning if the drives can't keep up.

And my previous comment "unless they are communicating with eachother" may not be true so you can ignore it.

sry double post, after 15mins

 

[bizzy420]

SO does this mean you have three cd-rom type drives

EXACTLY, i have 3 cd- drives and one hard drive. do u guys recommend this? i took the pcmark2002, and the hard drive scores are similiar to when the hard drive was set to master.