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Deviancy <marystar@biteme.net> wrote in message news:965345652.382871@nntpc-01.meganews.com...

> This subject line made me think this was about domination and what not :)

Thats coz you have a dirty little 'mind' |-)

> Seriously though

> Everyone I've talked to would suggest not to have two hd's one one channel.

Its a very theoretical consideration and depends on how the drives are
used. The reality with most modern PCs running an OS like Win9x is
that you dont see too many situation where both drives are being used
aggressively, so the disadvantage of that approach is very theoretical.

You wont find any measurable difference in performance when burning CDs.

> I'm thinking of putting my burner on the ata66
> tho, not because it will do shit but just cuz..

Obviously into careful rational analysis.


> Agent_C <fairnews@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:8mcmtj$dse$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > In article <lX%h5.23511$c5.65715@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>,
> >   "Sunny" <bevtez@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks again, I have two hard drives so : looks like'
> > > IDE-1  Hard Drive (Master)
> > > IDE-1  Hard Drive (Slave)
> > > IDE-2  CD-ROM  (Master)
> > > IDE-2  CDR/RW  (Slave)  8x4x32
> > > 11 months old Abit BX6 R2
> >
> > As long as your not getting any buffer underrun errors with the burner
> > you should be fine. Although to insure that my second hard drive was not
> > bogging down the primary, I'd only have one HD per IDE channel.
> >
> > Here's how I would do it just to be safe:
> >
> > IDE-1  Main Hard Drive (Master)
> > IDE-1  CDR/RW  (Slave)  8x4x32
> > IDE-2  Second Hard Drive (Master)
> > IDE-2  CD-ROM  (Slave)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > A_C
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Before you buy.
>
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