I am running a Seagate Primary Master MODE 4  and a Secondary WD MODE 4
with a Torsion CD  Mode 0 slave. The CD is a 1997 made 4 speed. The WD is a
archival drive so speed is not a big issue other then one of the partitions
is part of my NT swap file.
I have not noticed a performance lag but I did ask both  Seagate and WD if
this was a acceptable setup and if I would experience any performance
degradation. The both replied that the setup was fine and would not effect
performance.

Mark
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>  I have an impression that many CD-ROM drive manufacturers may have
>corrected this, but I haven't seen that documented.
>
>  This is the first suggestion I have found, anywhere, that a chipset
>might be able to fix this.  It seems to me that that violates the
>EIDE standard and so may introduce other incompatibilities.  Hmmm,
>maybe that's why the TX chipset doesn't like some Seagate hard drives?
>
>David G


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