Re: 2 hard drives

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"Kenny" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%2330H2skXGHA.4248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Can't agree with you, all the PC's I've built have the 2 HDD on Primary IDE and optical
drives on Secondary.

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If you did the research and testing I did, when burning a DVD (CD), the C: or D: files
(IDE 0) will get copied to E: (IDE 1) (disc image) and then burnt to a slave DVD (CD)
writer. I can access BOTH hard drives simultaneously if I want when they are on different
IDEs.

You have to figure out the registry modification to allow the disc image to HONOR the
selection in the optical RECORDing tab on My Computer (select a drive where the disc image
will be stored). Windows XP doesn't honor your selection because they decided to have
registry keys that aren't even ACCESSED by the CD write process.



Don't want to go into a long explanation but it also makes CD/DVD writing less
problematic.

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DVD/CD writing isn't channel intensive as the devices are WAY slower than hard drives.
That's why having the source disc image and the DVD being on the same IDE isn't a problem.
The hard drive will always be able to stage data to be written to optical faster than the
optical can ever process it.

I wholly disagree (I have 15+ years in hardware performance) with your assessment.

JL


--
Kenny Cargill

"Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs."

"Jim Lewandowski" <jlewand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Put each hard drive as the PRIMARY for each IDE channel. I had issues with BIOS
detection (timing) if the 2nd HD was a secondary.

Remember to use 80-pin cables.

JL


"KevinG" <KevinG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I have recently bought a new hard drive and was wondering what was the best
set-up to have my 2 drives and 2 optical drives, for example, both HD
attached to the primary IDE channel (1 master and 1slave) or 1 HD on each
seperate channel (HD as master and optical as slave)?

Thanks in advance for advice.






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