[G4] Did I miss my bus?

[T. Brown / groucho]

On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 08:38  AM, jeff small wrote:

> I'm installing an additional IDE drive in my dual 1ghz.  Does it 
> matter which bus it's installed on?  I thought I had read somewhere 
> that there was a protocol for adding drives; I can't find any 
> reference now.
>

It would be best to put it on the same buss as the original drive. 
There is a slight speed hit if you put it on the CD/DVD drive buss. I 
do have a drive in the atapi chain, but it is for MP3 / iTunes storage. 
The drive is a WD 80 gig special edition
with an 8 meg cache. I notice no speed hit with it for that purpose. 
With other drives though, there was a noticeable difference.


HTH,
groucho