On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 07:57, civileme wrote:

> pair was a WD.  (As an aside from this, if you have enough IDE channels to do 
> it, put one hard drive per channel and use the other (slave) side for CDROM 
> or Zip or whatever, not only to avoid crosstalk but for efficient operation.)

Hi civilme,

Is this true when the slave does not function in DMA mode, or at a much
lower DMA mode?  I've heard that IDE defaults to the mode of the slowest
device on the channel.  What is you experience with this?

Thanks very much,
Damon
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