dreamliner77
The Analog Kid
- Joined
- 16 Mar 2002
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I can't seem to get a straight answer on a couple of things:
Will having an optical drive (cd, cd-rw, dvd) on the same IDE cable slow down the performance of the hard drive (ATA 133)?
Also, I can only get the cd-rom and cd-rw to show up as PIO-4. They still seem to operate correctly though. I know others have been able to change them to DMA. HOW? I tried through device manager with no results (they are set to auto select DMA if available).
Another question I can't seem to get consensus on is if I should have both optical drives on one cable and the hard drives on the other cable. I do alot of disc to disc copying. Anyone have any good ideas?
BTW, I just decided to ditch my ATA133 card. Too many probs.
Any insight into this would help me tremendously. Trial and error is really starting to suck...
Will having an optical drive (cd, cd-rw, dvd) on the same IDE cable slow down the performance of the hard drive (ATA 133)?
Also, I can only get the cd-rom and cd-rw to show up as PIO-4. They still seem to operate correctly though. I know others have been able to change them to DMA. HOW? I tried through device manager with no results (they are set to auto select DMA if available).
Another question I can't seem to get consensus on is if I should have both optical drives on one cable and the hard drives on the other cable. I do alot of disc to disc copying. Anyone have any good ideas?
BTW, I just decided to ditch my ATA133 card. Too many probs.
Any insight into this would help me tremendously. Trial and error is really starting to suck...