Re: WHAT ARE PRIMARY&2ndary MASTER/SLAVE???

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From: Dorian Gray (Devious_at_noplace.com)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 22:29:06 +1000

Your Motherboard has two ide cable connectors.
To connect CDROMS and Hard Drives.
The latest technology has changed to SATA cabling.

Ide Connector one is Primary Master and Slave.
Connector Two is Secondary Master and Slave.

General rule:
Place main Drive on Ide One Primary Master.
Place CDROM on secondary cable.

Master should go on end of Ide Cables.
Do not mix CDROM and Hard Drives.
It will slow down your hard drive.

The CDROM and Hard drives have jumpers to set as slave or master.
Factory setting defaults are normally master.

In your case I would use the two hard drives on the Primary cable but:
Preferably use a Promise Controller card to connect the second drive.
I do not like master slaving drives but that is just my way.

"RAHUL GHOSH" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6d0601c475a1$2eff1530$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> My problems are:--
> (1)I'm having 2 HardDisks & 2 CDdrives in my system..
> My HDD's RPM may not be same, i'm not very sure..But how
> does it affect system boot time if RPM of both drives are
> dissimilar?? Because if the RAMs doesn't match(in case u r
> having 2 RAMs in the system), then the system will not
> boot..Similarly if the HDdrives' RPM are not similar then
> how will it affect the system--will it ever boot or boot
> slow???
> (2)Finally please tell me the correct rule to connect
> 2HDDs & 2CD drives with the IDE ports of the motherboard
> in terms of primary & secondary master/slave ...I mean to
> say how should one connect the 2 harddisks & 2 CD drives
> with the IDE ports of motherboard in terms of primary &
> secondary master/slave??? whether the HDDs should be
> connected as primary master & 2ndary master or as primary
> master & primary slave???
> (3)Also please tell me win-XP works better on which--FAT32
> or NTFS ???
> please help
> regards, Rahul..

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