Hard Drive Channels

[silver_silver]

System

2 ATA 100 Hard Drives

1 DVD Player

1 DVD Burner

I use Ata 100 drives, I read one place that each drive should be on a seperate channel because you only access one channel at a time. So one channel would have hard drive master and DVD burner as slave, and second channel would have hard drive master and DVD player as slave.

I also read that channel is only as fast as slowest device on channel so it is best to set up as one channel as Hard drive master, hard drive slave. The other channel would be DVD Burner master and DVD player slave.

Which is right? What do I do?

[Kelsenellenelvian]

I would use one hard drive as master on each channel.