In the wee hour of 09:57 PM 7/8/01 +0800, Raymond Tau bequeathed such tales
as these:
>>Do not put either CD drive on the same controller as a hard drive
>>as you will slow the hard drive to a crawl, in most cases...
>
>I've installed CDRW drives for some of my friends and I didn't notice any
>performance degrade. I think that it is a story long time ago, when the
>CD-ROM drives were using some slow PIO mode, the IDE controller were
>ancient which can't transfer data at different transfer mode on the same
>controller for master and slave devices, and maybe the driver does matter.
Raymond, put a music cd in the cd drive and run a few applications like
word, email, and a browser window and the cd drive will slow the hard disc
IO. I've installed Nero many times as well with both cd drives on the one
chain and noticed no performance degradation as well.
Peter Kaulback
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