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~misfit~ wrote:
> Jerry wrote:
>
>>Andrew wrote:
>>
>>>I hae noticed in the past week or so that my dvd writer is going very
>>>very slow, Burning dvds take forever - more then an hour, Nero counts
>>>down the time remaining and it gets to zero and its not even a third
>>>the way through writing
>>>
>>>Yesterday i found that while playing music from the computer and i
>>>start writing a dvd during the lead in the music would pause and 1-2
>>>mins later it would start again
>>>
>>>
>>>I unplugged the hard drive that was connected to the same ide cable
>>>as the dvd writer (same drive that has the music on it) and the dvd
>>>writer sped up - back to normal speed
>>>
>>>
>>>Why would a hard drive hold back the dvd writer so much??
>>>
>>>Even when im not using that hard drive the dvd performance was bad
>>
>>As a general rule, you will save yourself a lot of trouble if you
>>don't mix HDDs and optical drives on the same IDE channel.
>
>
> Shouldn't make a scrap of difference unless you're running a 486, and an
> early one at that.

It shouldn't, but it often does from my experience. Admittedly I have
avoided mixing them for a few years, but not going back to 486.