Hello Tom, it is a lovely day today. 

 TW> Well it depends on what you are dojng. IF you do much copying from a
 TW> CD ROM to a CD-RW it is best to have the two CD's on seperate IDE
 TW> cables. 

 JP>         But I do not doubt that the Slave HD might be pulling all down
 JP>        at ATA 33 vs ATA 100 on the Master.

 TW> I think that slow down only happened with the Older Hard Drives. I
 TW> thought I heard that problem was solved and the two hard drives can
 TW> operate at different speeds with little to no slow down for the Faster
 TW> device.

        Not mine. My D:\ is a 4 gig 2.5" IBM HD meant for a laptop. It
        sits in a removeable drawer. I have had it 3 years, second hand
        from eBay. I ignore how old it would be. When I got it, it was
        my BIG HD, now superseeded by a new ( 1 year ) 30 gigger.

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