> Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on > different busses.. or IDE connectors. > > THis make more sense? Sorry about last post...it was sorta > muddled. -------------
Yeah, thanks.
So, this would seem that cd copying would be better done with cdroms on diff busses, too, right?
This makes it seem silly that the standard setup is to group hard drives together and cdrs/cdrws together...
eric
yes it is silly but its b/c that was teh way it was done until P3's came on the scene...till then if you separated them you saturated the busses as i understand it. Now its de riguer to do it this way to avoid that because the bus is so much faster as are the cpu's & the cache's are big. Back then a 512 cache on your cdrom was big...and no buffer underrun technology existed..so this also prevented that from happening.
ya separate cdroms are good...that way on teh fly read/writing is done more efficiently.
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