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| 259222 | 2004-08-07 09:02:00 | normally i have my 2 hard disks on the primary ide channel.. and i have a cd writer as secondary master. would there be a performance increase if i put the hard disk that is currently on primary slave onto the secondary slave.. reason being that because theyre not on the same ide there should be a performance increase ? please advise! Term X |
Term_X (560) | ||
| 259223 | 2004-08-07 09:10:00 | I tried this but alas My understanding is that the drive will be held to the speed of the slowest device on the channel R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 259224 | 2004-08-07 09:15:00 | oh damn :-( what combination of 2 hard drives and a cd writer across 2 ide's gives the best performance then.. what if the cd writer was secondary slave and the other hard drive secondary primary? | Term_X (560) | ||
| 259225 | 2004-08-07 09:49:00 | If the IDE controller is less than about 5-6 years old it should support independant device timing unless the other device is running in PIO mode. If the other drive supports DMA, each drive can run at its own DMA mode. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 259226 | 2004-08-07 09:52:00 | Sorry, the slowest device sets the speed, whether master or slave. unless someone can suggest a Raid solution. But, if both HDD's are the same speed, your current set-up has the best chance of success and stability long term (without using a Raid or similar set-up). R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 259227 | 2004-08-07 09:55:00 | Whoops, tooth-marks on the boots again. :-) R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 259228 | 2004-08-07 10:53:00 | my board is brand new ga-7n400-l and my hard disks are both seagate 7200 rpm barracuda around a year old.. so should be fine? and also how do u know if a drive is PIO mode? | Term_X (560) | ||
| 259229 | 2004-08-07 10:56:00 | ---> If the other drive supports DMA, each drive can run at its own DMA mode. do you mean each hard drive or the cd drive and the hard drive on the same ide? |
Term_X (560) | ||
| 259230 | 2004-08-07 15:48:00 | > oh damn :-( what combination of 2 hard drives and a > cd writer across 2 ide's gives the best performance > then.. what if the cd writer was secondary slave and > the other hard drive secondary primary? This rather depends on your motherboard and CD and hard drives. If this was me personally I would use the first hard drive as Primary Master. Second hard drive as as a slave drive on the first IDE Cable. CDWriter as Primary Master on the IDE2. You do not say how you have the hard drives partitioned. Looking at this further this may be the really important bit. As I see it at the moment you have two hard drives and one CDWriter. I see nothing about how the hard drives are partitioned. You can have have two hard drives of various sizes in a PC. One just has to be a primary master and usually contains the first operating system. You can put in to the system a second hard drive as as a slave and partiton this whole hard drive as well. The second hard drive can be used as an extended hard drive. Being as you have two hard drives and one CDWriter I would set the two hard drives as Primary Master and Secondary slave on the primary IDE1 cable from the motherboard. Ensure that the cables are set correctly and jumpers are set as well. Set the CDWriter as Primary Master on the IDE2 cable. Should be the only device fitted at this time from what I see. If you are trying to write to the CDWriter this may be the best configuration for you. I have no idea what Operating system you use or how your current hard drives are partitioned at this point in time. I have two 120 Gig seagate drives here and have one CDWriter and a DVD writer. My drive ( main one) is partitioned as C D and E as a hard drive and the other drive carries a copy of the other drive using Ghost. This secondary hard drive is a ghost copy of the first physical hard drive and is removed most of the time as a backup. On C I install my O/S and Programs. On D I save all data I make here including stuff I download from the internet and picture from my camera. E is a permant swapfile. From time to time I make backups onto CDs or DVDs. Now why you ask why I posted in another thread I think I have answered that. All this is just what I do. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 259231 | 2004-08-07 16:11:00 | I done this sort of setting before, but if you are transfering a large chunk of data (2G+) between the 2 hdd, it is much faster than both hdd on the same ide cable. | Blue_face (1148) | ||
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