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fishbulb
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_ 		19. May 2005 @ 17:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have an internal DVD+-RW drive and an external DVD-ROM drive (actually an internal converted w/ external enclosure). When I check my DMA setting it shows 2 Primary IDE Channels and 2 Secondary IDE Channels. Is this normal? Shouldn't I just have one of each? If so, how will having too many effect my drives' performance? And if I need to get rid of 2 of them, how do I do it?
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ddp
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_ 		19. May 2005 @ 18:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
primary holds 2 drives like master & slave as does the secondary
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fishbulb
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_ 		19. May 2005 @ 18:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So my settings are correct? I'm not sure how to check which is set to master and which is set to slave either. How should they be set up?
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ddp
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_ 		19. May 2005 @ 18:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
your primary master is your c:drive than whatever is jumpered as slave on same cable will be d:drive.
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