FemmeFatale wrote: <snip>
Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different busses.. or IDE connectors.<snip>
so for me:
Primary HDD & DVD ROM are on IDE1 ( i don't copy back & forth tween those... so no need to split them up)
Secondary CD R/W & HDD are on IDE2 (I DO Copy from HDD 1 (Primary) to my CD Writer...alot. Splitting them up allows faster transfer of data because they are not waiting for one another on teh same IDE Port/bus. This way they can transfer & don't need to wait for one another to finish unloading off the same Bus.)
Something to consider - and I may be wrong (I often am!) but I was having trouble with the
transfer speed on my shiny new ata133 hard drive a while back when it was connected as
master, and the dvd as slave, on the primary IDE cable.
I can't remember exactly where I read it - as it was some time ago - that if you connect
two drives to the same cable then both drives will be limited by the transfer capabilities
of the slower drive, eg master=udma5 - slave=udma2 then both drives will behave as
though they were udma2.
When I put my dvd drive as slave to my cdrw drive master on the second ide channel I got an
incredible improvement in transfer rates for my hard disk.
This may or may not be relevant but I just thought to comment on this for consideration and/or
comment from the more learned folks on the list. I like to learn and appreciate info from others.
Graham
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