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2nd Harddrive

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Toranaga

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HEy everyone, after adding my second harddrive to my computer, everything on the first slowed down an imense amount. I had to wait a few minutes more before it finished booting, and when i clicked on my computer, it would take 2-3 minutes to load everything in the folder, which was very annoying. Upon taking the harddrive out, everything worked well again. I would like to know how to have my second harddrive without slowing the first down. Also why this problem happened in the first place.

Thanks,
Andrew
 
first off is it on the same channel as your other harddrive (same ide cable?)
second is it a new harddrive or a really old one?

clark
 
its an 5 yr old harddrive (the current one is 3.5 years old) and it was on the same cable (and was set as the slave, while the original was set as the master).
 
Ya, no harm in it, ill give it a try in a lil bit. JUst curious, what exactly does cable selct do?
 
cable select allows the cable to decide which is primary and which is slave. depending on where the drive is plugged in. on normal IDE cables there are two slots for harddrives or cdrom drives. the slot farthest from the motherboard is for master the one closest to the motherboard is for slave. its best that u let the cable select it without setting the jumpers to slave and master
 
oh ok, but what effect would this have on the speed of accesing the harddrive (im guessing thats what weas the problem)?
 
It wouldn't, your problem is most likely that the second harddrive is forcing both drives to operate in PIO rather than the far superior DMA. You can make check to make sure that windows is attempting to perform DMA transfers on both drives by getting the properties of your Primary Hard disk controller under device manager. This assumes you are running windows XP.

Really a 5 year old hardrive shouldn't be operating in PIO, but it's a possibility. It's not going to be running on DMA mode 5+ in anycase.

Gav
 
Sorry, what are DMA and PIO, and where can i check this in 2000 (or on the physical hard drive)?
 
DMA stands for Direct Memory Access, and basically allows the drive to perform most transfer operations without involving the CPU, also provides transfer speeds in excess in 33 megabytes per second.

PIO is FAR FAR slower and stands for Programed Input/Output.

Procedure is the same in windows 2000, goto Device manager and get the properites of your Primary HDD Controller, under advanced settings it should tell you what mode the drives are in. Both pull down menus should be set-to DMA if available.

Gav
 
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