Hello,
I'm using an Asus A7V133 (KT133 chipset) with an onboard Promise ATA100 controller in addition to the standard primary/secondary IDE channels.
If I have one hard drive on the primary IDE and one optical drive on the secondary IDE, is there any point in switching the hard drive to use the Promise controller? Will it be faster? The Promise controller adds ten seconds to my boot time while it searches for devices, but if the standard IDE channel offers the same speed then there's no point in using the Promise controller. The standard IDE channel offers the same ATA100 speed, doesn't it? (XP says my hard drive--currently on the primary IDE channel--is using Ultra DMA mode 5, so I assume that transaltes to UDMA-100.)
I searched http://a7vtroubleshooting.com/ for an answer, but I only found out how to make use of the Promise controller; I couldn't find anything on whether it's faster than the standard IDE channel.
My motherboard: http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7V133
Thanks for your time...
I'm using an Asus A7V133 (KT133 chipset) with an onboard Promise ATA100 controller in addition to the standard primary/secondary IDE channels.
If I have one hard drive on the primary IDE and one optical drive on the secondary IDE, is there any point in switching the hard drive to use the Promise controller? Will it be faster? The Promise controller adds ten seconds to my boot time while it searches for devices, but if the standard IDE channel offers the same speed then there's no point in using the Promise controller. The standard IDE channel offers the same ATA100 speed, doesn't it? (XP says my hard drive--currently on the primary IDE channel--is using Ultra DMA mode 5, so I assume that transaltes to UDMA-100.)
I searched http://a7vtroubleshooting.com/ for an answer, but I only found out how to make use of the Promise controller; I couldn't find anything on whether it's faster than the standard IDE channel.
My motherboard: http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7V133
Thanks for your time...