What is the Best IDE configuration

[trevgit]

I have a 4.3 gig HD on my Primary Master, a Creative Labs Blaster 4224 CDRW on Primary Slave, a Creative Labs 6x DVD on Secondary Master, and a zip drive on Secondary Slave. Is this the best way to configure my system? I notice that sometimes my system freezes while booting to Win98 and that my CDRW light is on right before it happens. Is this the problem of my freezing?
Thanks

[CMonster]

Does it only happen if there is a CD in the drive? I think the system is looking for boot files or something as it sniffs out the drive. I have a 40x CDROM configured as slave that will do a similar thing if there is a CD in the drive when I boot up.

Maybe you have already tried swaping your drives around, but perhaps exchanging the CDRW with the Zip drive?

[bdog]

I always like to have a burner as a primary device, but if it works okay for you don't worry about it. I have just had them in the past that crashed while burning if slaves, but worked okay when put on master.

[Eli]

Make sure in your BIOS that the hard drive is listed before the CD drive as a boot device. If you ever want to boot from a CD you can change it back then, but for normal usage it's better this way. Hope this helps...