On Thursday February 13 2003 12:45 pm, Ryan Moe wrote:
> IDE0 and IDE1 are just standard ATA-66 channels.
I dunnn... think so, that's a ata/100 mobo
My IDE2 and IDE3
> are my ATA-100 channels thats why I have my HDs on those. I don't
> really have any use for my old CD-ROM so I might just remove that.
I've been thinkin the same as I could put in an old 13.6g HDD for
some more storage. It's gettin ridiculous, I've already got 120 gigs
of disk space. BUT, 2nd CDroms are even more useless if you have a
burner, an Cdroms don't work as well as readers anyhow.
> My board is in good shape, in fact MWAVE replaced it 8 months ago
> so it's fairly new.
Mwave is a great outfit. I've done most all of my business with 'em
for years. http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/index.hmx?
BUT, did you inspect those 8 mo. old caps? ...and why did the first
mobo havt'a be replaced in the first place? ...caps? It's a damn
shame 'cause Asus use to be reliable and high performance products.
Among the OCr's favorites. Actually I don't mean to single them out,
Abit is much much worse for much longer, and all the mobo vendors
have been slide'n down hill since about '98. Even MSI and Gigabyte.
Soyo seems to be holdin up, even gain ground.
I've tried getting firmware updates for my
> drive before and Creative labs never had an update for my model.
> Which leads me to believe it might be some rebranded drive like
> you mentioned.
That's the main problem with re-badged drives from a
conglomeration of suppliers ... nobody wants to own up to the final
product. Anything re-badged should be avoided. Still, a STFW (Google)
will probly turn up current firmware info if not a new bios flash for
it. Unfortunately, I vaguely remember Ricoh was the transport
supplier for Creatives. NAGT, but you might check that out.
> My VIA chipset is revision 3.
Great! Probly the best chipset for Linux, currently.
I have a Radeon 7200
> in the AGP slot and a SB Live! card in PCI2 and a linksys ethernet
> card in PCI3.
I'll take it by pci-2 you mean the slot right under the agp slot?
That first white pci slot should never be used if there's a card in
the pci-1/AGP slot (brown). So hopefully I take it you mean that's
empty. If not, move the SB down one slot. It's a good idea to use
every other pci slot after that, so you probly need to move the NIC
in any case.
If that's not clear.... the brown AGP slot is really the first pci
slot (agp is pci). The first white slot, pci-2 should be empty if
the 'agp' slot is used. So the SB should be in pci-3, the NIC in
pci-5.
SB Live! is a good example of bandwidth hog cards on the pci bus,
as are the newest nVidia/ATI video cards. Choice is yours, you can't
have both. If you want good steady data transfers across the pci/ide
bus, they got'a go. If you need surround sound and ridiculously high
FPS rates playin games, then expect your drives to suffer the pci/ide
degredation in real world activities (hdparm -tT not being one of
'em). 33 mhz only goes so far between so many devices.
I thought it might be an issue with my Promise ATA
> controller but that only controls my 2 ATA-100 channels right? My
> burner is on a regular IDE channel.
I believe as I alluded to before, I think the problem is your
controller card. It wasn't clear to me but I believe you've got 2
HDD's, 2 CD drives. Put your busiest, fastest HDD on hda
(ide0-master), the other HDD on hdb (ide0-slave). Put your old CDrom
as hdc (ide1-master), and your burner as hdd (ide1-slave). If you
have a 3rd HDD, then shelve the Cdrom and put the 3rd HDD in it's
place as hdc. Give that addon controller card to your worst friend
or best enemy.
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