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Fattierob
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Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
|  Posted: 2007-05-12 13:21
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On 2007-05-12 13:11, BackSlash *Jack* wrote:
When two drives are on one controller, only one drive can work at a time. If you request 1GB from each drive, it's going to have to access the data on the first, access it, then spin up the second, find it, and access it - which takes a lot longer than it sounds.
This is why I slap people who think that putting games one one HDD, and XP on another, yet run them on the same IDE controller - is a good idea.
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Well, backy, what should I do?
I'm pretty sure my motherboard supports SATA, and I have a SATA cable right here.
This is my current setup:
1st Primary: C Drive
1st Slave: D Drive (I guess this explains why transfering between drives was always so slow)
2nd Primary: DVD-RW (which I hardly use anyway)
2nd Slave: Empty
Now, Backy, what should you suggest I do? Move the D Drive to the 2nd Primary and drop the DVD-RW to the C Drive? (I keep the D Drive for torrents/games and my C Drive for anything else) Should I add the 3rd drive as the 2nd Slave?
Anyway, none of this solves the problem of why it woudn't boot up...
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BackSlash
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Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2007-05-12 18:27
Never put CD drives on the same controller as HDD's - they're too slow, and HDD's will be forced to constantly stop and wait when a disk read is required (even if it's not, most OS' check for disk content every once in a while).
It's usually common to have the optical drives on controller one, and any drives on controller two, but most people use SATA nowerdays, which makes this system redundant (each SATA port has a pipeline of it's own, so it's not bottlenecked like IDE drives).
For an old machine, a setup like yours is fine. But mixing HDD's and optical drives on the same controller has always caused issues.
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Peter Wiggin
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Joined: November 10, 2005
Posts: 636
| Posted: 2007-05-12 19:03
I learned never to put HDDs and Optical drives on the same controller.. I used to put 2 hdds on one IIDE and 2 Opticals on the other... now i just have both opticals on one and my hdd is sata  Never knew why I shouldnt put them on the same one until now.. 
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Fattierob
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Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2007-05-12 20:43
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On 2007-05-12 18:27, BackSlash *Jack* wrote:
For an old machine, a setup like yours is fine. But mixing HDD's and optical drives on the same controller has always caused issues.
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Whats the worst that can happen if I mix an HDD and a DVD-RW?
the HDD has slow read-times? So i'll just use that for music and programs that don't require a large ammount of disk reading. Or such.
hmm.....maybe I should get out my motherboard's manual and check to see if i have a SATA slot on this board.....
Ah well, you guys have been given me alot to chew over. thanks
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BackSlash
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Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2007-05-12 21:11
Worst cast scenario is that your entire machine freezes whilst trying to access the data - it all depends on your combination of hardware, or more specifically, your chipset.
Oh, and you need an SATA drive to install it into an SATA socket.
You'll notice the difference if you have one:
Big red socket = IDE socket.
Small black socket = SATA socket.
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