My Slave IDE HD slows down Windows

Titus03 · December 19th, 2003

I have installed a slave HD in my computer and every time I boot up my PC and while Windows is loading, sound gets cracky, mouse runs slowly and also running MP3-file from my slave HD sounds cracky too.

Here's my config:

IDE1 Master: Quantum Fireball 13,2Gb (Drives C, D)
IDE1 Slave: Fujitsu 4,3Gb (Drives E, F)
IDE2 Master: LTN384 40x (Drive G)
IDE2 Slave: HP CD-Writer 8200+ (Drive H)

What should I do?

**Kane** · December 19th, 2003

Well if your slave drive is PIO rather than UDMA, it'll stress out your CPU.

Titus03 · December 20th, 2003

Here are my settings:

----------------PIO-----UDMA-----
IDE1 Master: 4 4
IDE1 Slave: 4 2
IDE2 Master: 4 4
IDE2 Slave: 2 dis.

Anything to change?

Viperx25 · December 22nd, 2003

Thats common. The smaller, older drive is slower so that will happen. I'd recommend leaving the Fujitsu out.

Fujisanka · December 24th, 2003

If you are trying to use both drives at once, like say, playing music from drive X while windows or whatever is still loading from drive Y then you will notice a large performance hit if both drives are on the same IDE controler. This is because IDE cannot do interleaved read/write commands between 2 different drives. Unfortunatly this is a limitation of the IDE spec and there really isn't anything you can do about it other than switching to SCSI drives.

**hushypushy** · December 24th, 2003

but at least data transfer between X and Y will be faster than on different chains. that's pretty much your only gain, SCSI owns

**Kane** · January 4th, 2004

I'd suggest putting the Lite-On as slave to Fireball, and the HP slave to the Fujitsu

December 19th, 2003	#1 (permalink)
Titus03 Advent yourself Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ? (In PAL-area) Posts: 723	My Slave IDE HD slows down Windows I have installed a slave HD in my computer and every time I boot up my PC and while Windows is loading, sound gets cracky, mouse runs slowly and also running MP3-file from my slave HD sounds cracky too. Here's my config: IDE1 Master: Quantum Fireball 13,2Gb (Drives C, D) IDE1 Slave: Fujitsu 4,3Gb (Drives E, F) IDE2 Master: LTN384 40x (Drive G) IDE2 Slave: HP CD-Writer 8200+ (Drive H) What should I do? __________________ - SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS: ---------------------------------- Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @3.00GHz \|\| ASUS Commando 2GB DDR2 800MHz RAM \|\| EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512Mb Corsair 620W 620HX \|\| 3x Seagate 160Gb SATAII HDD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Windows XP Professional SP3/Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron ------------------------------------------------------------------

December 19th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Well if your slave drive is PIO rather than UDMA, it'll stress out your CPU. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

December 20th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
Titus03 Advent yourself Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ? (In PAL-area) Posts: 723	Here are my settings: ----------------PIO-----UDMA----- IDE1 Master: 4 4 IDE1 Slave: 4 2 IDE2 Master: 4 4 IDE2 Slave: 2 dis. Anything to change? __________________ - SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS: ---------------------------------- Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @3.00GHz \|\| ASUS Commando 2GB DDR2 800MHz RAM \|\| EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512Mb Corsair 620W 620HX \|\| 3x Seagate 160Gb SATAII HDD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Windows XP Professional SP3/Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron ------------------------------------------------------------------

December 22nd, 2003	#4 (permalink)
Viperx25 Technology Guru Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 285	Thats common. The smaller, older drive is slower so that will happen. I'd recommend leaving the Fujitsu out. __________________ My System Specs: Viewsonic E790B 19" Monitor MSI 865PE Neo2 - FIS2R P4 3.2Ghz HTT Thermaltake Spark 7 HSF 2x512mb Kingston HyperX DDR400Mhz Leadtek A350 TDH Ultra (FX 5900 Ultra) (480Mhz core, 930Mhz memory) 35GB Maxtor/Quantum Ultra160 SCSI Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Antec Performance Plus 660B case 400 Watt PSU WinXP Pro

December 24th, 2003	#5 (permalink)
Fujisanka Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 16	IDE spec limitation If you are trying to use both drives at once, like say, playing music from drive X while windows or whatever is still loading from drive Y then you will notice a large performance hit if both drives are on the same IDE controler. This is because IDE cannot do interleaved read/write commands between 2 different drives. Unfortunatly this is a limitation of the IDE spec and there really isn't anything you can do about it other than switching to SCSI drives.

December 24th, 2003	#6 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,837	but at least data transfer between X and Y will be faster than on different chains. that's pretty much your only gain, SCSI owns __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994. 2008 "How Not to Post" guide

January 4th, 2004	#7 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	I'd suggest putting the Lite-On as slave to Fireball, and the HP slave to the Fujitsu __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

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