Re: install sloooow doooown

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 15:12, [email protected] wrote:
>You should never install IDE drives on the same
> channel.

Would someone tell me why this is right? I've always worked under the 
assumption that 2 devices on the same IDE channel would both operate at 
the speed of the slower drive, thus if I had an UDMA 100 hard drive and 
a CD-ROM on the same channel, they would both run at UDMA 33, whereas 
if I had 2 UDMA hard drives on the same channel, they would operate at 
their full speed, assuming my controller could handle that. I have 
always read that mixing hdd's and cd-roms on the same channel was poor 
practice.
	Who's right? I do see something to be said for Stew's way of thinking, 
though it's not that often that your 2 hdd's write to each other and 
even when that happens, it seems to me that data can move between 2 
UDMA100 drives faster than between a UDMA 33 drive and a UDMA 100.

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Regards, Ernie
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