Hello, I am thinking of having on the 1st IDE channel the HD as master and a DVDR as slave, in order to avoind using an extra cable (I have a small tower case)
is there any perfomance impact if both devices are on the same channel?
Thanks!

There is a slight impact if both drives are active.
But unless your HD is faster than 40Mb/s, you'll notice nothing..
I have the same config and it works well.

keropi

THis is not a recommended solution. Please do yourself a favor and use the Secondary IDE for the DVD drive. Your HD will thank you for it.

magnetic

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More than slight if you are burning a DVD at high speed from that HD .. it'll most likely make a coaster (or atleast kick in whatever anti-coaster mechanism you have enabled, slowing down the burn and creating an irregular imprint)...


- CISC

Dawm, im so happy that all my IDE2SCSI Convertors from my a4k are working fine and that the SCSI support in MOS works so good, that i dont have these problems.

They may have been expensive, but there are cheap ones too like the Yamaha (about 10 Eur on Ebay, with luck), which also do a great job, if you dont need lba 48

[ Edited by dIGIMAN on 2007/7/7 17:45 ]

well I just added that extra cable, actually doesn't bother as I imagined... thanks for the repiles!