putting drive and hdd on same cable

silvafish · 30-April-06, 01:49 PM

I'm curious, and before I dive into my computer, i'm curious, can i put my hardddrive and my dvd-rw drive on the same ATA cable? And if i can, can i have my dvd-rw drive on master and my hdd on the slave part of the cable and just change the jumper settings so that my hdd is master and my dvd-rw drive is slave?

Ator · 30-April-06, 02:38 PM

You can, but it'll slow down your system because DVD and CD drives are a lot slower...I think they still run on ATA-33.

Tattoo · 30-April-06, 04:40 PM

I tried that once and it wouldn't work, but I think the hdd was my boot drive and it didn't like that. I can't remember for sure tho. I'd suggest putting the hdd as the master just to be safe.

godfoot · 30-April-06, 04:47 PM

Ideally, a burner should be on a separate IDE channel. If you use more than 2 IDE devices, it would depend on which ones you are using.
For instance, if you have both a cd/dvd burner as well as another cd-rom drive, I would hook up the cd-rom as the slave on IDE 1 (with hdd being master), and then the burner as master on IDE 2 with whatever else being the slave.

Spectrum · 30-April-06, 04:56 PM

Don't add any opticals to any channel with your hard drive, unless it is a storage or secondary hard drive. The slower ATA-33 drives will negatively impact the hard drives performance.

jofultner · 30-April-06, 04:57 PM

Good advise,Jo...

Quote:

Originally Posted by godfoot


	Ideally, a burner should be on a separate IDE channel. If you use more than 2 IDE devices, it would depend on which ones you are using. For instance, if you have both a cd/dvd burner as well as another cd-rom drive, I would hook up the cd-rom as the slave on IDE 1 (with hdd being master), and then the burner as master on IDE 2 with whatever else being the slave.

godfoot · 30-April-06, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spectrum


	Don't add any opticals to any channel with your hard drive, unless it is a storage or secondary hard drive. The slower ATA-33 drives will negatively impact the hard drives performance.

Good point, but a burner will also suffer from being on the same channel as an HDD.
If you can get around it (say if you only have 3 IDE devices), use the HDD by itself on IDE1 and the opticals on IDE2 with the burner as master. That or get SATA drives if your mobo supports them.

silvafish · 30-April-06, 06:38 PM

alright....lol i got a sweet ide rounded blue uv cable off of ebay...but i didn't know it had two connectors...just would mean less clutter. yeah, all of the optical stuff still runs at ATA-33...i dunno why they don't make it faster.

30-April-06, 01:49 PM		#1 (permalink)
silvafish Apex Tech Fanatic	putting drive and hdd on same cable I'm curious, and before I dive into my computer, i'm curious, can i put my hardddrive and my dvd-rw drive on the same ATA cable? And if i can, can i have my dvd-rw drive on master and my hdd on the slave part of the cable and just change the jumper settings so that my hdd is master and my dvd-rw drive is slave?

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30-April-06, 02:38 PM		#2 (permalink)
Ator At-Whore	You can, but it'll slow down your system because DVD and CD drives are a lot slower...I think they still run on ATA-33.

30-April-06, 04:40 PM		#3 (permalink)
Tattoo Apex Master Tech	I tried that once and it wouldn't work, but I think the hdd was my boot drive and it didn't like that. I can't remember for sure tho. I'd suggest putting the hdd as the master just to be safe.

30-April-06, 04:47 PM		#4 (permalink)
godfoot A George Orwell fan...sorta	Ideally, a burner should be on a separate IDE channel. If you use more than 2 IDE devices, it would depend on which ones you are using. For instance, if you have both a cd/dvd burner as well as another cd-rom drive, I would hook up the cd-rom as the slave on IDE 1 (with hdd being master), and then the burner as master on IDE 2 with whatever else being the slave.

30-April-06, 04:56 PM		#5 (permalink)
Spectrum Former GameApex Editor	Don't add any opticals to any channel with your hard drive, unless it is a storage or secondary hard drive. The slower ATA-33 drives will negatively impact the hard drives performance.

30-April-06, 06:38 PM		#8 (permalink)
silvafish Apex Tech Fanatic	alright....lol i got a sweet ide rounded blue uv cable off of ebay...but i didn't know it had two connectors...just would mean less clutter. yeah, all of the optical stuff still runs at ATA-33...i dunno why they don't make it faster.