I'm adding a new DVD burner to my 1.7Ghz, PIV system. I currently have a CD-ROM as master on the secondary. I was thinking I'd put the DVD burner as master on the secondary. Is this a good idea and should I then move the CD-ROM to slave on the primary or slave on the secondary?
2007-06-10 12:06:19 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Your 1st hard drive should be primary master and use primary slave for a 2nd hard drive. Secondary master should be CD-RW /ROM or DVD-RW/ROM . Secondary slave should be the same as master if you have 2 drives. I only have 1 hard drive in primary so it jumpered as cable select. My CD/RW is in secondary jumpered as master with my DVD-ROM jumpered as slave on secondary. Your CD-ROM shound be slave on the secondary. Make sure all drives are jumpered right!
2007-06-10 12:46:00 · answer #1 · answered by "NEWBIE UNLEASHED" 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would put the DVD burner as secondary master and CD-ROM drive as secondary slave. Reason being if you put the CD-ROM drive as primary slave, depending on how far away the hard drive is inside your case, the IDE cable will probably be going all over the place. If you keep the DVD burner and CD-ROM drive on the same channel it should keep the clutter down.
2007-06-10 12:25:08 · answer #2 · answered by Colin H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't have a master on the secondary drive it's no use having a slave there. I have CD-ROM as a slave on primary drive (same drive where Windows XP Pro is located), but I could access CD-ROM in Linux (located on secondary slave drive: My secondary master drive contains an unaccessible Home version of XP. )
2007-06-10 12:20:50 · answer #3 · answered by bryan_q 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its ok yet make confident that the time-honored grasp is the force the place your OS is put in and make confident that all people the jumper is nice your CD ROM is additionally a secondary slave in case you prefer to function one extra force as secondary grasp.
2016-11-10 01:11:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For speed, it is better to put HDD on master and the multimedia devices,i.e. cd-rom or dvd-rom on the secondary.
So, if you have a HDD and two dvd drives, put the HDD on master and the first dvd on secondary master and the second on secondary slave.
2007-06-10 12:12:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, it probably doesn't matter either way. I would probably put the CD-Rom on the secondary but that's just preference rather than any information about performance.
2007-06-10 12:09:33 · answer #6 · answered by Justin H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever you do dont put the cdrom or dvd on the same cable as the hd. It will slow down you hd data flow.
2007-06-10 12:48:01 · answer #7 · answered by garends1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Answer 1 is right but I have my hard drives on one IDE and the optical drives on the other. Just my preference.
2007-06-10 12:10:54 · answer #8 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first option is better because it wont work as a slave if your secondary has no master
2007-06-10 12:10:23 · answer #9 · answered by Benj 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh no, it doesn't matter at all. It will work the same. No need to switch.
2007-06-10 12:10:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋