On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 03:40:09 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:10:30PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > > Is it the case (as a local PC shop assistant tried to > > convince me recently) that having the reader and burner on > > the same IDE interface means that copying CDs is faster? As > > though the reader can put the data on the wire and the burner > > read it directly, without it having to go > > reader -> ide bus -> cpu (or mainboard) -> ide bus -> writer. > > That's the wrong way round. IDE is way too dumb to do that sort > of thing. The data goes reader -> ide bus -> cpu (or mainboard) > -> ide bus -> writer in any case. But with both reader and > writer on the same port, they can't both be transferring data > at the same time. If you put them on different ports, they can > (more or less). > > It's generally both faster and more stable to put the writer on > a cable on its own, and have the reader and the hard drive > sharing the other cable.
Care to enlighten me on this one? A hard drive is fast; a CD writer is slow (even if the manufacturer claims it writes at XXx). So the hard drive is going to be hobbled by the CD writer, right? I have the impression that the "red" IDE connector is for slow devices, while the blue connector is for bleeding-edge devices, the numbers computer (re)sellers like to tack on to their specs: UDMA 133. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
