On Wednesday, September 19, 2001, at 05:30 pm, James Morgan wrote:
> Nope. Not using the IDE bus with the dvd/cd drive on it.
> Using the one that runs the hard drives. One difference is there are
> two 40 GB Hard Drives on the onboard IDE bus (The 40 GB IMB that
> shipped with the G4 and the new 40 GB Maxtor) and only one hard drive
> on the Sonnet card.
If the Maxtor drive is the SLAVE on the ATA chain on the internal bus it
could be slowing it slightly, I know I was always advised to put IDE
CD-RW drives in computers as the MASTER as this speeded up access.
> I probably should have hooked both new Maxtor Hard Drives to
> the Sonnet card but the cables are getting thick in there so hooked
> one to the existing cable to save space. But if the onboard IDE bus
> is only half the speed of the Sonnet controller then I will hook both
> hard drives to the Sonnet card.
Can't you get both Maxtor drives on the same cable? If you have proper
80-conductor ATA cable (the stuff with really thin looking wires) there
should be 3 plugs on it - one for each drive and one for the ATA card,
like in the Mac itself.
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