> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas McGahee [SMTP:tom_mcgahee@SIGMAIS.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 2:26 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      [OT]: CD archiving
>
> A little note about connecting up CD and CDR/CDRW drives:
>
> My drives came with instructions as to how to connect
> up the drives. I followed the notes exactly and had
> miserable results. Then I decided to connect the drives
> up the way that made sense to me, based on my understanding
> of the IDE motherboard systems. BINGO! Now my units work
> like a charm.
>
> Here is what you want to do:
>
> Place your Hard Drive and regular CDROM drive on the 1st
> IDE controller.
>
> Place your CDROM burner on the 2nd IDE controller.
>
> This allows concurrent operation of the CDROM burner
> and the other devices, slightly speeding up the transfer
> of data TO the CDROM burner.
>
> On many systems it really doesn't matter which IDE
> controller you use: but if you are experiencing difficulty
> with your CDROM burner, try adjusting the system to
> the above configuration. Keep the CDROM burner on
> the second IDE controller, preferably all by itself.
>
Placing an ATAPI CDROM as a slave to a hard drive can (allegedly) impact
hard drive transfer rate quite considerably.  I use SCSI so I don't worry
about this, but everything I have read says to keep hard drives on one IDE
channel and slower devices such as CDROM,s ZIP drives etc to another another
channel.

Mike

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