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swalker
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 Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:38 am Post subject: EIDE cables |
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I have 2 hard drives and they share the same EIDE cable.
Is it absolutely necessary for the 2 drives to be on the same EIDE
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Ben Myers
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: Re: EIDE cables |
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Definitely not. But most computers have only two IDE connectors. One is
usually used for hard drives and the other for CD-ROM drives, DVD-ROM drives and
the like. And you have to make sure the drive jumpers are set to match either
the role of the drive (master-slave) on that IDE cable (channel) or are set to
cable-select with the right cable... Ben Myers
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:36:47 -0500, swalker <sw@newsguy.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I have 2 hard drives and they share the same EIDE cable.
Is it absolutely necessary for the 2 drives to be on the same EIDE
cable? |
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BRIAN HILL
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Joined: 20 Jan 2007
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Location: ROMFORD, ESSEX, ENGLAND
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:46 am Post subject: Re: EIDE cables |
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 NO! you will also find a small 'speed' improvement by putting one HDD on One IDE cable and the other HDD on a seperate cable.
It is normal to put your CD/DVD drive on the second cable, so you do not get slow down when copying files from CD to HDD - which could happen if both shared the same cable..
Adding the second HDD with the CD/DVD drive would only 'slow' you down if now copying files from the CD/DVD drive to the second HDD on the same cable...
Just try to copy 'from cable to cable' for best results.
Hope that was helpful 
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