Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:50:46 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: Mykroft Holmes IV <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> Cc: Trent Nelson <trent@limekiln.vcisp.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ATA66 compatible CD/DVD burners Message-ID: <20030131134947.F54363-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <1044026615.30424.5.camel@ticking.explosive.mail.net>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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