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In my own XP Pro system, I've just replaced the HDD with a new 7200rpm x 120Gb drive . Currently it's the sole drive on IDE0 (or IDE1, if you prefer)
The secondary IDE port houses two CD drives.
My question - if I hook up a recent model 16x DVD drive as slave to my HDD, (which is on an 80 wire cable) am I likely to hamper the HDD's performance in any way?
I do have the option of running the DVD on a RAID port, which is where I've had it running in the past, but it means activating the additional RAID\ATA IDE ports in the BIOS of my Gigabyte 7VAXP-A-Ultra board, and this slows the boot sequence down.
I'd prefer to use the DVD on IDE0 if possible.
Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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