You're best bet, as long as you don't need to do a lot of disk to disk copying, is to put your optical drives on a seperate channel from your hard drives. This is especially true of CDRW drives, where you want to maximize the data throughput from your hard drives to the burner. Putting them on the same channel could create bottlenecks when you burn a cd. So I would make the disk drives hda and hdb and let the cdrw be hdc.
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I just swapped drives around... should of answered this in my other post...oh well.
If you do alot of copying from hard drive to HDD or cd to cd or cd to hdd:
put your 100 gigger separate on the primary IDE channel.
Put your cd burner on the 2nd IDE channel for faster computer speeds & copying from HDD to CDRom. Also stick your other HDD on this channel as its likely you will do more copying from the primary to CDRom than from the 2nd HDD to CDRom...thus preserving read/write speeds & allowing better transfers speeds.
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