CD on Master, HD on Slave

[Stupid Boy]

Configuration one:

Master: HD
Slave: CD-ROM

Configuration two:

Master: CD-ROW
Slave: HD

Will my HD perform more slowly in configuration two than it will in configuration one?

Thanks

[Th0r]

The only time your Hard drive will be slower when data is sent from the CD drive to the Hard drive. It would be best to have a Hard drive on your Primary IDE on Master and your CD Drive on your Secondary IDE as Master.

[adelphia83]

Will my HD perform more slowly in configuration two than it will in configuration one?

No, you are effectively doing the same thing in either setup... Although I don't know why you would want the hard drive as slave..? It won't make a bit of difference.

The ideal setup, as mentioned above, would be to use seperate channels, so both devices don't have to share the bandwidth.