13 Apr
2005
13 Apr
'05
6:46 p.m.
sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
If u connect a cdrom drive and a hdd on the same cable you are very likely to have a problem.
The regular ide cable supports only ata33. The 80 wire cable is needed for 66/100/133 Mhz idebus speed.
This problem was observed in machines having independent cables too. When there is a cd rom and a writer in the system, both have to be in seperate ide channels for faster cd to cd writing. The writer has to be master so sec. master. This leaves primary slave for the cd rom.
Regards,
Rony.