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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
To: Mykroft Holmes IV <mykroft@explosive.mail.net>
Cc: Trent Nelson <trent@limekiln.vcisp.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>,
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Subject: Re: ATA66 compatible CD/DVD burners
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> There are none currently. The solution is to use your secondary IDE
> channel for your optical drives, your Primary IDE channel for your boot
> drive and a secondary controller (They're dirt cheap, like $25) for any
> other drives. Keeping your Hard drives at 1/channel improves
> performance, since IDE doesn't handle multiple units/channel well. And
> this way you keep any optical drives on a single channel, so they don't
> drag the speed down for your other drives.
>
> Personally, I run with this set up on my main desktop:
>
> IDE0(ATA66): 1 ATA/33 HDD (Drive only supports ATA33, boot drive)
> IDE1(ATA66): 1 8x CD-RW, 1 36x CD-ROM
> IDE2 (ATA100): 1 ATA100 HDD (Data+ XP Swap)
>
Actually, this isn't true though. My dvd drive (Lite-on generic brand) is
ATA 66. I don't know which burners are ata 66 though, my tdk 48x burner is
still ata 33 so it drags my ata66 dvd drive down to ata 33.

Ken


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