Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:34:35AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> you cannot mix different speed drives on the same ide cable ...
> - similarly, you cannot mix 2MB buffer disks with 8MB buffer disks
> ( the hw doesnt know what to do )
That's odd. Not to say "That's stupid." The whole point of introducing IDE
was to make drive installation simple and not require the user to know the
details of the hardware, but they left this huge flaw in it?
> put your 40GB on its own ide cable as Master.. make sure its 80-
> conductor.. and that your bios supports it ( reports it as a 40GB drive )
The BIOS handles it fine.
> leave the working prev 1GB drive alone.. on its own cable
I don't have four controllers here. I have four IDE drives and only two
channels. Would it be effective to put each HDD on its own cable, with a
CD drive as a slave?
> and as posted earlier, make sure you have DMA enabled and -X at the right
> speeds
The earlier post didn't make it to me, I'll have to check the archive --
thanks for mentioning it.
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