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Old 13 May 2003, 10:46 PM
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sorry not **** related

so which would be better/faster

2 HDD on the primary IDE master & slave
cdrom & dvdrom on the secondary IDE master & slave

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Old 13 May 2003, 10:55 PM
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oh, also getting the HDDs to be in DMA mode, not PIO
Old 13 May 2003, 11:35 PM
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Keep your HDs seperate from the CD & DVDs.

They should auto set to the relevent DMA mode unless BIOS settings haven messed with.
Old 14 May 2003, 11:35 AM
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i think me new HD is cr@p. Sometimes it takes awhile before loading progs. Ive tried afew tweaks as ive a 350 P2 394mb & XP. Two hds, the new one ntfs, the old, fat32 which i will convert.

Go faster stripes anyone?

Old 14 May 2003, 01:07 PM
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Yer old, slower, hard drive will slow down the new, faster, hard drive if they are connected to the same channel....
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