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old ATA/CDROMS myth?

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HooFS

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this really dates back quite a bit, but in old days building systems, you weren't supposed to put a CDROM together with a HDD due to the fact the CDROM would limit the HDD's bandwidth. I'm not even sure exactly why that was so, and I've heard in the past that no longer applies. But somehow throughout the years I've never needed to put a hdd on the same controller as a cdrom.

Now I'm facing that probability, so I ask, is there any detriment to putting a HDD (say an ata100 drive) together with a cdrom/dvdrom drive? Would Master/Slave status matter?
 
Actually it was a matter of the IDE controller limiting the channel to the speed of the slowest device. That is no longer the case...feel free to mix and match at will.

Although, it is beneficial to keep your cdroms and HD's seperate if possible.
 
depends on the cdrom drive. if it doesn't run in udma mode i think the channel won't be able to run in udma mode
 
HooFS, welcome to the [H]. :)

Please have a look around the main forum page and you'll see we have numerous forums for various subjects.

General [H]ardware is for hardware topics which don't fit into another more specific forum. Data Storage is the place for all things related to drives (HD, optical, CDROM, DVD, etc.), so off you go. :cool:
 
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