Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:58:38AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> get another ide controller for $10
Actually $45 was the cheapest one I could find locally. Maxtor ATA/133,
which is really a Promise card.
And the advice was correct. Once I got around to installing the thing,
speed returned to normal. I have the boot drive on channel 1 of the
motherboard controller, my two CD drives on channel 2, and the Maxtor 40 gig
drive on channel 1 of the new controller.
In setting things up, I found EVMS, a wonderful utility if you don't know
which drive ended up as which device. I recommend it to anyone installing
new drive controllers or drives.
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