[IMCANADIAN]

Hi, I have a Maxtor 120gb ata133 and an older seagate ata100 20gb drive, and my question is, why does the motherboard run the 2 drives at ata33 when they are installed together? I have my secondary channel full (cdrom and burner), so I can't use that, and I don't have any ide controllers. Do I have to run the maxtor at ata100 to have both drive running at that speed, but I read somewhere in this forum that both drives will run at the max speed of the slowest drive... Anyone know? BTW, my maxtor is currently the master on primary with nothing on slave...

[IMCANADIAN]

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[stool]

Have a HD and CD on each channel in a Master/Slave configuration. Its also a better setup if doing direct CD copies. In other words, ATA133/CD, and/or ATA100/CDRW

[Know Nuttin]

It should run at whatever speed. Having a slower device on the chain no longer slows the other one down unless both are active at the same time.

Have you tried different jumper settings? Placement on the cable is proper? Master at end, slave in middle?

[druidelder]

You are using 80conductor ribbon cables, right? Using old 40wire cables limits the speed.

[IMCANADIAN]

Originally posted by druidelder
You are using 80conductor ribbon cables, right? Using old 40wire cables limits the speed.

Yes, I'm using 80pin cable for the drives.

Have a HD and CD on each channel in a Master/Slave configuration. Its also a better setup if doing direct CD copies. In other words, ATA133/CD, and/or ATA100/CDRW

Are you sure that will work? I heard of other people saying that the drive will run at the same speed as the cdrom drive in that case. I can't really try it either since my drives are seperated too far apart and my cables are too short

Oh and sorry for the lack of frequent replies, my email broke so I didn't know if anyone replied here or not

[Andyman902042]

Originally posted by IMCANADIAN
Are you sure that will work? I heard of other people saying that the drive will run at the same speed as the cdrom drive in that case.

No I'm almost positive each drive will run at their own independant speed. Lot's of people have a CD-ROM and hard drive on the same channel without any performance drops.

[IMCANADIAN]

Originally posted by Andyman902042

No I'm almost positive each drive will run at their own independant speed. Lot's of people have a CD-ROM and hard drive on the same channel without any performance drops.

I can't run the drives with the optical drives in the same channel because my cables are not long enough. I've actually decided to leave the computer this way because I don't see any performance lost (I took the old drive out so its running ata133, then put the drive in to see if there is any difference in games, applications, etc, and there isn't any performance lost), well, maybe like 5% but I'm not one who begs about performance, but rather stability. Thanks for your post and everyone elses help.