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**pam123** · 04-30-2005, 12:39 PM

That looks about right but why don't you just put the DVD/CD-R on one IDE cable, as master/slave, and the PATA HDD on the other as cable select, which maxtor drives seem to prefer nowadays.
Optical drives seem to do better when jumpered master/slave.

04-30-2005, 12:39 PM	#10
pam123 Computing Professor Staff Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 11,715	That looks about right but why don't you just put the DVD/CD-R on one IDE cable, as master/slave, and the PATA HDD on the other as cable select, which maxtor drives seem to prefer nowadays. Optical drives seem to do better when jumpered master/slave. __________________ Asus M4A77D, 64 X2 6000+, 4 GB Corsair DDR2 800 ram, Radeon 5770.