Re: IDE Channels

From: francis gérard (spam_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 08/28/04

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    Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:40:15 -0400

    "NoNoBadDog!" <mypants_bjsledgeATpixi.com> wrote in message
    news:uM4J14TjEHA.2696@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
    > Cari offers one solution, however I would recommend both HDD on the
    > Primary, with the fastest as Master, and the Opticals on the Secondary,
    > with the fastest as primary. Most Optical drives are DMA 2 or DMA3, while
    > most HDD are DMA5. The transfer rates will suffer if the drives are mixed
    > on the IDE channels. A simple HDD tach utility will confirm this. On
    > most modern motherboards, it is the recommended procedure to Put HDD with
    > HDD and Optical with Optical. This will optimize date rates per IDE
    > channel.

    bobby, this is no longer true with modern chipsets, it *was* true with older
    mainboards that mixed-mode devices on the same IDE channel would be limited
    to the speed of the slowest device on the channel, but that is now in the
    past, and has been for some time. 

    --
francis
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