Nvidia IDE drivers on DFI NF4 with Nvidia sata raid

[Melectricus]

I have a new DFI expert that I set up using the nvidia raid drivers for a raid 0 with two sata drives. I did not use the nvida IDE driver because I never do out of zillions of previous recommendations. However, two different DVD burners seem flakey in the system and I was wondering if I should use nvida IDE drivers in this specific case?

Thanks just wondering.

 

[supaidaaman]

you know, i have nvidia drivers installed on my Asus A8n sli premium, and have no problems, i also got pretty crappy score on CPU mark 2005 when i didnt have them installed on my (SE16 WD3200KS 320GB SATA 2)

but i never really checked real time performance between the no driver/driver config...

 

[Pens1566]

Some will say to not install them due to problems with burners etc.. I have them installed because I have a Raid 1 PATA array, and they are necessary. No problems. Both of my dvd burners still work fine. Then again they worked fine before I set up the Raid and installed the IDE drivers too. BTW, same MB you have. See sig.

 

[Melectricus]

Thanks, I've only found one or two discussions about the DVD issue and it may be related to the instance when using Nvidia raid without Nvidia IDE drivers. I have a back up 300gb Seagate IDE HDD on Primary Master and have no problems. The DVD is on secondary master and it does sometimes act funny - really lags when disk is inserted, explorer searchs really long, even a lock or two. Both these drives are really new and were in computers where they worked flawlessly.

I'll give it a try and see what happens. Thanks again.

Edit: I tried the DVD with and without the HDD in the system and on both Primary and Secondary IDE - so channnels are ok, it's just the DVD.