ide setup questions

i finally got a burner and was wondering how i should set my ide channels. i've also got a dvd-rom, and a zip. what i thought i would do is set the hard drive and the zip on ide 0 and make them master and slave respectively, and put the burner and dvd on ide 1 and make them master and slave respectively. do you agree?

 

If you put the burner on the same channel as the hdd, both will run at ATA33, slowing the hdd down.
I imagine that hte zip drive would do the same thing, however.
I would have the hard drive and dvd drive on the same cable; many dvd drives do ata66, shrinking the bottleneck to almost nothing. Yes, when you use the dvd drive, it will have to share the cables bandwidth with the harddrive; only one can send or receive data at once, then, pause and let the other device have its turn. So ripping dvd's will take twice as long, basically.
But, this will allow you to burn files from the hdd easily, since the burner is on the same cable as the zip drive. At 52x, a cdrom only uses 7.8mb/sec of data transfer anyway. A 16x dvd uses (IIRC) 21.6mb/sec.

So:
cable - hdd - dvd
cable - burner - zip drive

 

thanks guys.