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For sensitivity issues, please stop using the terms "Master" and "Slave".
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I was wondering how long it would take the thought-police to arrive
Artsemis - there's nothing inherently wrong with having your CD rom and CD-rw on the same cable. It only means you shouldn't copy directly from one to the other; always go via one of the HDs. The setup you have means you shouldn't have problems burning from either HD to the CD-RW, and the 2 CD devices won't slow down access to your HDs by hogging the bus. Only caveat is that while you're burning,
leave the CD-ROM alone - this includes even opening the drive door! For some reason this can result in it briefly taking over the IDE channel, and your CD-RW has to rely on its internal buffer (which rapidly runs out at reasonable burn speeds). Otherwise, sounds like a good setup.
Personally, I have:
1: CD-RW, DVD-ROM
2: 30Gb HD, 14Gb HD (storage, slower discs)
3: 120Gb HD (system)
The extra connector is from a cheap PCI IDE card I bought. I have the system drive on its own so that it never gets its channel hogged by another device. The only problems I get with this system is if I try to use both CD drives at the same time, as I mentioned above.