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Master and Slave in harmony.... HOW ?

Aug 18, 2006 1:09PM PDT

Help me !!!

One of my PC has 80 GB HD (at 7200 rpm/ UDMA5, and it's runing good.

Enters, another HD!!!
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Recently i connected an OLD hard disk, it's atleast 5 or 6 years old... Quantum Fireball 20 GB (UDma 2)

Right now, i have my Primary HD in IDE 1 (Master... where win Xp is installed)

And... in 2nd IDE cable... I have made ''20 GB HD'' Master and My DVD player Slave.

Is there any better way... to connect, these two HD...without slowing my Pc down ?

I do... see a bit of lagging... while loading the winxp.

HELP !!!
Gsoul2soul

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Install XP on faster HD
Aug 18, 2006 4:34PM PDT

80GB hard drive = UDMA5 = ATA/100 = 100MB/second
20GB hard drive = UDMA2 = ATA/33 = 33MB/second

Other speed factors:
- amound of disk cache (512K vs 8MB, larger is better)
- rotation speed (4500rpm vs 7200rpm, faster/higher is better)

You want the OS to be on the fastest hard drive (80GB), on the lowest IDE channel (usually labeled channel 0), and as a master. Use an 80 wire (40 pin) Ultra ATA cable that is rated for ATA/100 or ATA/133.

I'd put the 20GB HD as a slave on whatever channel it likes. Some older HD's and optical drives don't cooperate in certain positions on the same channel as other drives.

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After that...
Aug 18, 2006 5:11PM PDT

...look in DEVICE MANAGER to see if each IDE CHANNEL is in DMA MODE and not the slower PIO MODE.

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noise?
Aug 18, 2006 4:36PM PDT

That Q Fireball is pretty loud in comparison, isn't it? I still have a few of those around.

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i know...
Aug 18, 2006 8:29PM PDT

he he he... yes!!!

It can be a lillllll loud... ha ha ha