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SATA, IDE Setup on New Rig

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Hi Guys,
I've got an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard with a 74gb Raptor connected to SATA 1 on the board that I want to boot from. I have 2 NEC optical drives DVD±R DL, and 1 IDE 320gb WD hard drive I want to use as backup. Do I connect both NEC's set to cable select on the secondary IDE channel and the 320gb HD set as master on the primary IDE channel? I think I read somewhere you get better performance if the optical drives have their own channel. Can anyone set me straight? Thanks Tom
 
Since you have to share the IDE connectors, put the optical drives on one (one jumper on master and the other slave) and the HDD on the other one.
 
Actually, you should have the optical drives together, and the PATA drive by itself (as master). The optical drives should be in a master/slave relationship (with the faster drive as master). Whichever is primary or secondary is your choice.

On my P4C800E Deluxe, I have two hard drives (one SATA and one PATA, with the PATA as the secondary drive) and two optical drives (both are now DVD burners, as I just replaced my DVD-ROM drive with a dual-layer DVD burner of the multiformat sort). The boot load (since I dual-boot MCE 2005 and Windows Vista) is, of course, on the SATA drive (the boot drive).
Cable-select requires particular cabling, and is unnecessary with same-channel optical drives, as that channel will ALWAYS be held back by the slower drive (which is also why any PATA hard drive should NEVER be on the same channel as an optical drive).
 
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