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  1. 03-11-2001, 02:12 PM #1
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    Unhappy IDE problems

    Okey I had my 4 gig drive set as master and my 20 gig drive set as slave both on ide0 and i was getting boot times of 2 minutes+.

    I then put my 20gig no ide1 and my 4gig (master w/ boot) on ide0 and it booted in 30 seconds.

    Anyone any ideas how i can keep them on the same cable and not have stupid boot times and the like?

    It was slow on the windows part of the boot, splash screens.. not bios.

    I really want at least 2 other free ide chans so thats why i want to fix this now before any more probs occur.
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    Check the manufacturer's site for these drives. They may be incompatible or need special jumpering.

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  3. 03-11-2001, 11:40 PM #3
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    Check to see if windows is running the drives in compatibility mode when both are on the same IDE channel. That would definitely cause a slowdown. Possible reasons? Maybe DMA is enabled on a drive that doesn't support it (the 4 gigger). I'm sure there are others that escape me at the moment.
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