On Thursday 02 May 2002 14:15, babu walad wrote:
The Seagate drive is setup on a separate IDE channel but it shares it with a CD-ROM (all my IDE buses are used up...).
The maxtor is on another IDE channel with another Maxtor drive. All drives on all channels are 40GB, ATA100 drives and the IDE channels are ATA 100.
I now suspect it is because I have the CD-ROM on the channel with the Seagate.
Does that make sense guys?
Thanks!!
Babu
Ok Babu, That helps a lot and I suspect you have hit upon the problem. The Seagate and CDrom are on the same line! IDE behaves badly any time there are two drives on the the same channel, things start to slow down some. Just the nature of the cheap IDE electronics. Be sure also that you have ATA100 cables on the drives too. If you have the old standard 40 strand cables, dma won't be used nor the ata100 only 33mhz for those. You might try switching the Seagate over to the first channel and see how it does then too. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb