WHAT ARE PRIMARY&2ndary MASTER/SLAVE???

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RAHUL GHOSH - 29 Jul 2004 20:34 GMT

My problems are:--
(1)I'm having 2 HardDisks & 2 CDdrives in my system..
My HDD's RPM may not be same, i'm not very sure..But how
does it affect system boot time if RPM of both drives are
dissimilar?? Because if the RAMs doesn't match(in case u r
having 2 RAMs in the system), then the system will not
boot..Similarly if the HDdrives' RPM are not similar then
how will it affect the system--will it ever boot or boot
slow???
(2)Finally please tell me the correct rule to connect
2HDDs & 2CD drives with the IDE ports of the motherboard
in terms of primary & secondary master/slave ...I mean to
say how should one connect the 2 harddisks & 2 CD drives
with the IDE ports of motherboard in terms of primary &
secondary master/slave??? whether the HDDs should be
connected as primary master & 2ndary master or as primary
master & primary slave???
(3)Also please tell me win-XP works better on which--FAT32
or NTFS ???
Please help
regards, Rahul..

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Jerry - 29 Jul 2004 22:18 GMT

Hard drives are to be connected only with hard drives - jumper to Master and
on end of cable, jumper to Slave and on middle.

Same with jumper and order of CD drives.

Hard drives have ratings of ATA 33/66/100/133 and a faster drive will run at
the lower speed if two are on the same cable.

It really doesn't matter but the hard drives should be on IDE1 and the CDs
on IDE2.

DO NOT mix a CD drive and hard drive on the same cable. CD drives are rated
ATA 33 and will slow things down big time.

XP will work just fine on FAT32 or NTFS. Better is a matter of subjective
opinion. (If you have any reason to use real-mode DOS and want to be able to
read an XP installation then you must use FAT32 as DOS knows nothing about
NTFS.)

> My problems are:--
> (1)I'm having 2 HardDisks & 2 CDdrives in my system..
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> Please help
> regards, Rahul..

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