Aaron
Jul 1 2002, 07:02 AM
What's your IDE setup?

I can transfer about 600mb from one drive to another in about 40 seconds or so. I can't do on-the-fly CD copying from dvd drive to cdrw, because of the same ide cable its on, but not a major loss.
What's your IDE Setup and how does it benefit you?
MSNwar
Jul 1 2002, 07:59 AM
Primary Cable: Master HD
Secondary Cable: CD-ROM and Zip Drive
SCSI Card (Not IDE but in the system): CD-RW
Cool Topic AaronXP
rstryker
Jul 1 2002, 09:35 AM
Mthr Primary
maxtor 60GB 7200 Master
Mthr Secondary
maxtor 80GB 5400 Master
maxtor 160GB 5400 Slave
Promise Ultra 100
Primary
PlexWriter 12/10/32 Master
Secondary
PlexWriter 12/10/32 Master
Hitachi GD7500 DVD-Rom Slave
can burn like crazy...never a coaster
AMD 1200
ASUS A7V
3 x 512 PC133
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500
SB Live 5.1
Linksys LNE100TX
MSNwar
Jul 1 2002, 11:07 AM
Ross,
Interesting configuration you have there.
Two Plextor CD Writers and a DVD ROM.
Do you burn to both writers at the same time?
Aaron
Jul 1 2002, 11:14 AM
I'm gonna buy a Maxtor ATA133 PCI Card to max the performance of both my Maxtor and Western Digital drives, it ain't doing so well on my ATA66 Motherboard
Only costs about £25 from ebuyer.com, BARGAIN!
rstryker
Jul 1 2002, 11:31 AM
QUOTE (MSNwar @ Jul 1 2002, 06:07 PM)
Ross,
Interesting configuration you have there.
Two Plextor CD Writers and a DVD ROM.
Do you burn to both writers at the same time?
yes...sometimes.
when i burn to both at the same time i usa diskjuggler.
usually i copy disks from plex to plex. using clonecd. never made a coaster doing that.
MSNwar
Jul 1 2002, 12:17 PM
I did not know CloneCD would copy to two burners. I will try it this week. Very nice.
Today I was looking at a stand alone burner. It only had one CD-ROM Reader and one DVD/CD Writer. Not sure if there was a hard drive in it. Some have hard drives and some don't. Those that don't usually copy on the fly. Anyway, I did not price it because they usually cost too much anyway.
But, if I added another scsi writer to my scsi card I could burn two discs at the same time. Have you tried it with NERO?
MSNwar
Jul 1 2002, 12:23 PM
QUOTE
I'm gonna buy a Maxtor ATA133 PCI Card to max the performance of both my Maxtor and Western Digital drives, it ain't doing so well on my ATA66 Motherboard :(
Only costs about £25 from ebuyer.com, BARGAIN!
AaronXP.
Good idea. That would save everyone big bucks who wanted the fast throughput for new hard drives without buying a new motherboard!
If there were a Tip of the Week category ...
That would be it.
rstryker
Jul 1 2002, 12:58 PM
QUOTE (MSNwar @ Jul 1 2002, 07:17 PM)
I did not know CloneCD would copy to two burners. I will try it this week. Very nice.
sorry, you misunderstood.
when i burn to both at the same time i usa diskjuggler.
usually i copy disks from plex to plex. (burner to burner) using clonecd.
zipp51
Aug 14 2002, 11:06 PM
Primary.....30GB Seagate Baracuda ATA 7200rpm
Secondary....Creative 52x cd rom MASTER
LiteOn 32/12/40 CDRW SLAVE
The CDRW manufacturer recommended this master slave setup with the cd rom.I have just read an article that making the CDRW the master will boost the reliability of the write features.Anyone have any other data or knowledge about this?
zErO
Aug 18 2002, 10:51 AM
Primary - Maxtor 80gig ATA133
Maxtor 40gig ATA133
Secondary - Liteon CDRW drive
Sony DVD drive
Tinker
Aug 18 2002, 06:24 PM
RAID, 3 Maxtor ATA133 and a ATA100 each at 40gig. 4 all together in a 0,1 array totaling 80gig. TDK CDRW on IDE1 master.......
Aaron
Aug 18 2002, 07:30 PM
What program do you use to view your devices on the IDE channels?
Tinker
Aug 18 2002, 08:25 PM
That is a screenshot from the software monitoring utility that came with the Promise Fastrack 2000 RAID. It just shows the array and nothing else in the system....
Gelantious
Sep 18 2002, 02:41 PM
Channel 1: Master = Main HD
Channel 2: Master = CD-RW
Channel 3: Master = Cache HD
Channel 4: Master = Backup HD
Channel 5: Empty
Channel 6: Empty
Using Abit IT-7
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