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Asus A7V133 setup question?

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snidy

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I'm not sure what would be faster and more efficiant for my system,
I have the primary Ultra 100 IDE, Secondary Ultra 100 IDE, Primary IDE, and Secondary IDE.
I know my hard drive should be on the Primary Ultra 100 IDE. Where is the best place for my CD burner and my CD Rom drive?
 
do you want faster boot up?
then disable the promise controller and stick your drives as follows
primary master: HD slave: empty
secondary master: burner slave: cdrom

or better cd-cd burning reliability?
primary master: HD slave: empty
secondary master: burner/cdrom slave: empty
promise controller
primary master: cdrom/burner slave: empty
secondary master: empty slave: empty

really the best performance is to set it up w/ each drive on its own channel like the second set (the performance difference between the promise controller and the built in controller is basically none) but that only gains performance when you are using both your cdrom and burner at the same time (cd to cd transfer but then again if your burner is 6X or lower it will do that w/o/ a hitch anyways)... i would go w/ the first setup because then you don't have to wait for it to check for the drives on teh promise controller


my thoughts

Josh
 
well, placement isn't really THAT important..but you certainly do have some options here

i'd say put the cd-r as secondary master on the ata100 controller and the cd-rom as secondary master on the non-ata100 PCI controller.
 
I also have an A7V133 and want to know my best setup. I have two hard drives, a 40 GB 7200 rpm WD and an 18 GB 7200 rpm WD Expert drive. The 40 GB is ATA-100 while the second is ATA-66 so I want the 40 GB drive to be my boot drive. I have Windows loaded on both but the 40 GB has a new, clean install with a minimum of software while the 18 GB is almost fully loaded as it was my original drive. I also have a Creative CDRW drive and a Creative DVD drive that I need to hook up. How do you recommend I set the drives up? Are all the IDE channels ATA-100? I have been trying different combos and Windows 98 will not detect a second hard drive even though they are hooked up correctly. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

James
 
i have the same exact motherboard and i usually have the cdrw as the primary ide and the cdrom as the secondary ide. i obviously use the primary ata100 controller for the hard drive.
 
Medellon
i would suggest this for your setup
via controller (ata100)
primary master/slave: dvd drive
secondary master/slave: burner
promise controller
primary master: 40GB HD
secondary master: 18GB HD

my thoughts

Josh
 
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