On Friday 13 August 2004 18:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With that said, if you have 2 disks, it's important to have them both > installed as IDE primaries, never having two disks on the same IDE > channel as primary and secondary. The idea is that your system can > read/write to the two primaries at the same time, whereas with a primary > and secondary setup, the read/write must alternate between the primary > and secondary.
I thought this as well. But I was also told that if two differeing devices share and IDE, the slower one sets the rate. (This may be the cause of all those error-51 messages.) So if I put the two disks on two IDEs as primaries and the CDs as secondaries, the results may not be good. However, I originally set things up similarly and had no complaints. So ... what is the truth here.
