RE: Difference between Primary and Secondary IDE Channels?
- From: "Peter" <Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:26:02 -0700
Hi,
Usually you should connect the Hdd to Primary IDE channel as Master and the
Optical drive to Secondary IDE channel as Master. Both drive jumpered as
master or cable select.
Always connect the fastest drive as master and the slower drive as slave in
the same IDE channel.
For best performance, I would suggest you to use the 40 Pin 80 wires
shielded IDE cable for both drives; jumper both drives as cable select.
Peter
"Michael Reed" wrote:
> Is there any difference between the primary and secondary IDE channels? I
> have my harddrive on secondary and my DVD 16X burner on primary. I tried
> this because when I put my DVD burner on secondary it would only get
> Multi-Word DMA mode 2 while the HDD got UDMA mode 5 on the primary. This is
> a new burner and capable of UDMA 4. After troubleshooting I switched
> channels and got UDMA mode 4 on the DVD burner when on the primary as master
> and still got UDMA mode 5 on the only HDD on the secondary as master. I
> don't understand the difference and the computer works fine and it appears I
> am getting the transfer modes I am supposed to.
>
>
>
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