RE: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> > having a slow system due to adding a disk is equally bad as a
> > scrambled disk..... ( fix the problems that causing the symptoms )
> > -- dont mix drives unless they are both ata-100
> > and both have 2MB disk buffers .. etc.etc..
> >
> > c ya
> > alvin
> >
>
> I've never heard of matching buffers before.
mixing w/ 8MB buffer disk cache is a recent problem
since its been around a year or two
and you do have to keep those disk buffers the same on the
same ide cable along w/ the same ata-66 vs ata-100 vs ata-133
mix and match and you lose... :-)
- time, data and/or $$$
c ya
alvin
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