Master or Slave

[macca40]

Quick question which is best for CDROM and CDRW drives master /slave on IDE2.Also which drive takes the audio cable.

cheers macca

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Master/Slave doesn't really matter. Plug the audio cable into whichever drive you plan on listening to audio CDs from. Back to the first question. Your best bet is to have the CD devices on two separate channels. I don't know what you have on IDE 1, but I would probably put the CD-ROM as slave on IDE 1 and put the burner as master on IDE 2 this leaves slave on IDE 2 open for whatever you have as slave on IDE 1 right now. The reason for this change is so that you have maximum bandwidth available for burning from CD-ROM or hard drive. If I were loading new software from a CD in this configuration, I would probably use the burner to do it to increase the data transfer speed.

 

[HonestBob]

I dosent really matter wich Drive is on Master or Slave. If your sound card has an auxilery and a cdrom output hook them both up!

 

[boran]

Okay 1st :

CD rom and DVD drives suffer nor gain performance when switched from master to slave so it is best to put them as slave (unless they are the only one on the ide cable, then it should be master offcourse)
harddrives DO gain performance when they are set as master

so the optimal setup is (for a DVD, CDR and dual HD system like mine)
- Ide 1 master : HD1
- Ide 1 slave : CDrom/dvd/CDRW 1
- Ide 2 master : HD2
- Ide 2 slave : CDrom/dvd/CDRW 2

this makes up for a cable mess inside your case tho (in my case it is .. but my cable was bent in order by my oem to use it as Ide1- HD1+HD2 setup)

2nd
The audio cable will need to go into the drive you will be using to listen to your CD's or play games with CD-audio ...
(in my case it is the DVD and not the CDRW because I only use the CDRW to write CD's ..)