Two drives on 1 IDE cable

[delljunks]

I have a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive and Pioneer DVR-105 both on the same IDE cable. the DVD-RW is master, other is slave. Would there be any performance decrease if I use JUST one at a time?

EDIT: to clear confusion CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive is (one) drive that is a combo

[rxc]

I have a DVD drive and a CD-RW drive on a single round IDE cable and there is a performance decrease when I use both drives at the same time (i.e. copying data from 2 cd's onto the HD). So using one drive at a time should yield the best performance (I think this is what you're asking).

Actually, I was thinking straight. For the situation I described above the performance limiting factor is probably the HD.

[Cjwinnit]

Originally posted by delljunks
I have a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive and Pioneer DVR-105 both on the same IDE cable. the DVD-RW is master, other is slave. Would there be any performance decrease if I use JUST one at a time?

I doubt it, your average CD reader does 5-9 MB/sec, and the DVD burner not that much more. If it's an ATA100 or 133 it won't be pushing it.

[unreal]

i agree with cjwin

[diehrd]

I agree one cable is ok UNLESS you want to transfer data from one opticle to the other..If you do then you have a decient chance of corrupting data.

[N1vek215]

Yeah, I always try to avoid having to cd drives on the same cable, but something, length, posistion, and space doesn't let me. I heard a long time ago, that it's not good to have them on the same cable. I think pretty much the only thing is that you'll get slower speed from tranfering form one cd to the other, but I really don't know any other reason.