re: 3 CD roms How to make work?
Friday, June 4, 2004 at 1:18 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tom Swanson
(5553 messages posted)
You might want to debate it, but your position is weak. And your reference link doesn't
appear to support combining CD and HD on the same cable, and there are several advising
against it.
On Friday, June 4, 2004 at 12:51 pm, carbo18 wrote:
>Althought it is true that two UDMA devices will run at slowest speed on the same
>cable. No hard drive in existance can put out 133MBps. The fastest 7200 RPM UltraDMA/100
>drives can reach a maximum "sustained" transfer rate of less than 42MBps, and that's
>only on the fastest part of the disk. Only RAID configurations can achieve higher
>speeds.
>
>Read Internal Sustained Transfer Rate (STR)
>http://www.storagereview.com/map/lm.cgi/str
>
>Therefore if you have a two UDMA of at least mode 4(UDMA66) drives on the same IDE
>cable you shouldn't incure much of a performance hit, even less if the second device
>is not used often.
>
>Like I said it IS debatable.
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