Did any of you tried having the DVD-ROM and the hard drive on the same IDE cable?

I plan to buy a mother board but it has one IDE and the rest are SATA. And I do not plan to use SATA as I need to use up my IDE hard drives. I also plan to run FFD show.

Thanks.

Ronjon

Cable select on both devices, primary closest to motherboard. Or pin them as master/slave.

Or you can use something like this:



http://www.google.com/products?q=ide+sata+...=en&show=dd

HDD and CD-ROM on the same IDE cable is fine. Just make sure the computer knows which one is suppose to be the master and which is the slave (by jumpering them, or using cable select; as joxer said).

Some people say it's not optimum to put a burner on the same IDE cable as the hard drive that has the data you plan to burn, but I've done it lots of times and haven't noticed any problems.

Thank you for the notes. Have you guys experimented this with FFD show (having hard drive and the rom drive in separate cable and in one cable)? This is a very CPU intensive program. That is my concern.

Ronjon

I have three HD's and one burner and I get along fine. I prefer to set the CD-ROM to slave and the HD to master, but I have seen it doe both ways.
When you have a burn going, try not to do anything else thats intensive on the bus and you should be fine.

SJ

Not a problem, and hasn't been for a while. The newer ATA100 hard drives are fast enoguh, and a newer burner has enough buffering to make it all work out.

With the older ATA66 hard drives, and the older (typically 8X or below) burners, they didn't do buffer underrun nearly as well, which caused problems.