2 hdd setup

Hello, i am running an NF7-S ver 2.0 with 2 hard drives on first ide channel
and one dvd and one cd/r on the second channel. both hard drives are a lot
slower than they should be and i was looking for help speeding them up. i am
currently not using either sata hookup. system is athlon 3200+ with
512mb(one slot) ram and an ATI 9800pro video card.

On Sun, 08 May 2005 12:47:13 -0400, mumphry wrote:

Hello, i am running an NF7-S ver 2.0 with 2 hard drives on first ide channel
and one dvd and one cd/r on the second channel. both hard drives are a lot
slower than they should be and i was looking for help speeding them up. i am
currently not using either sata hookup. system is athlon 3200+ with
512mb(one slot) ram and an ATI 9800pro video card.

Each channel can only only read/write to 1 device at a time, so if you are
reading/writing to/from devices on the the same channel, it will only do
one at a time. If you are going from a device on one channel to a device
on another channel, then it can be concurrent. With your setup, going
to/from HD to HD or cd to/from dvd drives slows you down. It's best to
have a seperate channel for each device. About $10 will get you a ide raid
controller with 2 more channels. or it could be that you aren't running
the drives in DMA mode. I think you can check this in device manager in
Win, but don't hold me to that. I don't use Win.

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"mumphry" wrote in message
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Hello, i am running an NF7-S ver 2.0 with 2 hard drives on first ide
channel and one dvd and one cd/r on the second channel. both hard drives
are a lot slower than they should be and i was looking for help speeding
them up. i am currently not using either sata hookup. system is athlon
3200+ with 512mb(one slot) ram and an ATI 9800pro video card.

Good advice from Wes, the other thing you can do is to get another seriellel
convertor and run the drives using the sata controller in raid 0 (drives
permitting)

MikeE