HW Question about Secondary IDE

[m16si]

Hi all i have a question about IDE secondary channel (In my case i have two burners there)

What is the diffrence betweeen this next things :

ULTRA DMA 1,2,3,4,5

MULTIWARD-DMA 0,1,2

And do i need better secondary IDE (MB to CD-rom) cable to have dma mode 5 ?????

Coz i can only choose mode 1,2 there are no 3,4,5 modes?????!!!!

OK i just know what PIO mode is

Thnx for help

m16si

[puntoMX]

Your CD burners will have enough with UDMA 2 (33MB/s) (40p cacble), some burners can use UDMA 3 (66MB/s) but then you need a 80p cable.

[soldier1st]

it is better to have your cd rom and hard drive on there own ide channel(hard drive on primary and cd rom on secondary)if on the same ide channel they have to share to channel(the bandwidth or speed)on there own channel they get there own bandwidth instead of it being shared)