Cd-burner and IDE

[BooglaBagla]

Just got a new HP burner/dvd combo, 9900, installing on a dell optiplex gx110.
Having problems with overall performance after i put the new cd drive on IDE 2 with old cd rom and then slaving zip drive to HD on IDE 1...
tried all sorts of jumper configs... any suggestions? the computer works fine but just is REALLY slow. Strange thing is that sometimes after fiddling
with the jumpers and reboot, the computer works fine. Then upon a second reboot, the computer suddenly slows down. Any ideas? thanks

 

[corkyg]

The last time I checked all the hardware reviews, there was only one combo DVD/CDRW/CDROM drive that came close to meeting performance specs . . . that was Ricoh. Combos usually result in the worst of all worlds.

Putting your Zip drive as slave to your HDD is probably causing your ATA 66/100 HDD to revert to 33.

Get rid of the Zip drive and your problem should ease. If you must have a Zip, think external USB or Firewire.

Alternatively, get rid of the CD ROM drive and put the Zip as slave to the combo DVD burner.

 

[stockjock]

First off I would NOT put the CD's/DVD on the same channel. Slave one of them on the Primary IDE with the HD and then slave the Zip on the secondary channel. I don't think this will fix your slow computer problem but it will help when you go to copying CD's. Also make sure that your using the correct part of the cable for the HD. I don't think this used to be a problem with the old ATA33, but now with ATA100/66 it might make a difference.

Just my .02

 

[Janus]

I worked around the potential performance probs with my 3 IDE devices (HDD, CD-RW, DVD) by adding a cheap Promise Ultra66 controller card for about $10 from my local ma/pa computer shop. Everything seems to work great and the Promise card has native WinXP drivers, so it only involved adding this card to prevent an IDE bottleneck when doing CD-RW/DVD on the fly copying.