Hi

I have a typical P4 2.6 system with 2 IDE connectors on my motherboard. I
have 2 DVD burners and 1 IDE hard disk (main system drive) on my machine.
All the drives are installed and working OK but I get problems with access
speeds / bandwidth when I use the burner that is on the same channel as the
hard disk.

I have heard that for multiple simultaneous burners it's best that the
burners are on separate IDE channels. I happen to have an old ABIT hot rod
100 raid controller card and was going to hook the main IDE drive up to this
so that I could have the burners connected as masters on each of the ide
channels on the motherboard and no secondary devices connected at all.

Does this make sense?

Do I need to change any bios settings to set the abit raid PCI card up as a
master device?

Is there a better way of doing this?

Will the Abit hot rod 100 card be OK?

Will accessing my prmary hard disk through the Abit card degrade hard disk
access speeds?

Will using a card like the Abit raid controller on the PCI bus degrade other
PCI or AGP devices because it may be a bandwidth hog?

Please feel free to respond to any or all of the points i have raised.

Any other advice / issues?

Thanks

Pete