Messages in this thread | | | From | jbradford@dial ... | Subject | Re: ATAPI + cdwriter problem | Date | Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:41:29 +0100 (BST) |
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Hi,
> the other 2 drives are on a different controller not a prmoise its running > off the motherboard.
Odd, I was positive you were going to say it was the Promise controller to blame :-)
> its a via chipset motherboard which botht the old 2x writer and 44x are on > the secondary channel > the whole ide system looks a bit like this. > hda: IBM-DTTA-351680, ATA DISK drive > hdb: IBM-DTLA-305040, ATA DISK drive > hdc: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdd: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM 44X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hde: Maxtor 4G160J8, ATA DISK drive > hdf: Maxtor 4G160J8, ATA DISK drive > hdg: 32X10, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Can't see anything obviously wrong with that setup, but once you get the new CD-writer working, I'd re-arrange things like this:
hda: IBM-DTTA-351680, ATA DISK drive hdb: IBM-DTLA-305040, ATA DISK drive hdc: 32X10, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM 44X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hde: Maxtor 4G160J8, ATA DISK drive hdf: Maxtor 4G160J8, ATA DISK drive not connected: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Unless you really need 2 CD-Writers available, (in which case, I would suggest moving over to SCSI anyway).
Then you are only using 3 interfaces, and not 4, (which seems 'neater' to me, but you might dis-agree). I don't think you're likely to see much performace advantage to having the CD-writer on the Promise card, to be honest. You probably will for the Maxtor, (good choice), hard drives, though.
> i have some time over the next few days so i could try to recreate crash > and try stuff.
That might help, as I can't think of anything else to suggest off hand.
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