This is for Dgath....
Ok, check your QIG(quick installation guide) Page 3, under "6-Connecting Cables"
There you got it!!!!! What this means is... that if you connect a hard drive with a Cd-rom, the hard drive will run at the speed of the Cd-rom, which is slower than the H/D. My advice..... get a serillel 2 ,which will give you 1 IDE port, or better yet... buy a Maxtor ATA to IDE card that will give you 2 IDE ports for less money.
Haha... wow, never knew that. And I definately make CD copies so thanks! Ok, so since after all I'm just using two HDDs and two optical drives. I'll just put my 120 gb as master IDE1 and CDRW as SLAVE IDE1 and then my 80gb as Master IDE2 and my DVD as SLAVE IDE2. Yeah, that seems right. Sorry first time builder.
Ok, check your QIG(quick installation guide) Page 3, under "6-Connecting Cables"
Keep away from connecting one legacy slow speeddrive, like CD-ROM - DVD, together with another hard drive on the same IDE channel; this will drop your integral system performance.
There you got it!!!!! What this means is... that if you connect a hard drive with a Cd-rom, the hard drive will run at the speed of the Cd-rom, which is slower than the H/D. My advice..... get a serillel 2 ,which will give you 1 IDE port, or better yet... buy a Maxtor ATA to IDE card that will give you 2 IDE ports for less money.