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Originally posted by charliex
its a bit hard to tell from the wording, is your CD and ZIP on the same cable and then HD on the primary master cable all on its own ?
so primary IDE master HD nothing on primary slave
secondary IDE CD master / ZIP slave
thats as it should be, you could try swapping the ZIP and cd around
you dont want a low speed device like a CD or ZIP drive on the same cable as a HD, as it will reduce your HD's performance (unless you have very slow HDs )
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--first off, thanks for those who took time to reply.
the winning setup is:
HD - PRIMARY MASTER
ZIP - 2nd PRIMARY MASTER
CD - 2nd SLAVE
thanks charliex for the suggestion!
I resisted moving these around because the IDE ribbon cable would be twisted badly trying to reach the CD on top with the 2nd slave plug, then twisting the cable to reach the ZIP with the Master plug.
So why does putting the ZIP as Master speed up the boot? Just curious...but if you give me a good answer, you win a gold star.