Does having a DVD drive and Hard drive on the same IDE channel effect performance?

[CMB]

I would too pit but its full

Primary Channel
Master-12gig Bigfoot
second-16gig IBM DTTA

Secondary Channel
Master 2xDVD Creative
second 20gig Maxtor

see my problem!

[CMB]

after playing about with it
it only stutters if DVD MAX is enabled????

If i disable duelhead then it plays fine???

whats that about? it used to work fine

I'll re-install powerdesk and see if that helps

[RAB]

Just a few thoughts:

1. If your new Maxtor is a UDMA66 drive and your board does not support this, you will need to download Maxtor's patch to keep the HD in UDMA33 mode. This way the bios will treat it as UDMA33 and it should run smoother. A motherboard bios upgrade can not make an older chipset recognize UDMA66 - that has to be built into the chipset.

2. I would install the Maxtor as the primary and the DVD as the slave. Some HD's like this and others don't care. I have a Maxtor too, but I've never tried it as a slave.

RAB

[Kruzin]

GENERAL HARDWARE

[CMB]

Does having a DVD drive and Hard drive on the same IDE channel effect performance?

Hi,
I could play DVD's fine up until a day ago
when i fitted my New 20gig hard drive.

My DVD (a creative labs 2x like you used to get with the the old DXR2)
is the master on the second IDE and all was fine. I made my new hard drive a slave on the Second IDE and since then have done a reinstall of windows. I have reinstalled the Matrox DVD player and everything is now set as it was before.. but now watching Shaespear in Love is jerky periodically, at the begining, the long pan and a certain points through the film, it also hung half way *where it switches layers perhaps* which i have NEVER seen before.

So could this be my problem, that the new hard drive occupies the same IDE as the DVD?
does anyone know if it will improve performance if i switch them round so the HD is the Second Master, and the DVD is Second Slave???

any one know what im talking about???
:O( CMB

[Zwisch]

hi,

This should not affect it. As long as you made sure that DMA is still enabled for your DVD drive.

If you are not sure, you can always disconnect your hard drive to compare...

[CMB]

A good idea.
I have a new VIA chipset on my motherboard, and also updated the bios and the via 4in1 drivers Before i had a seperate utility to give me UDMA now its back in windows hands i think. It lists my DVD as being UDMA checked..
i think ill delete it and get window to redetect it then try again, then ill unplug it :O) thanks

[The PIT]

I would place the hard disk as master on the primary ide channel. Sometimes hardware is finicky over what it shares channels with. This way is the best way to avoid sillies like this.