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Two HD's? Controller card? Help!

AnitaPeterson

AnitaPeterson

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Give me a hand here, since I don't know much about controller cards.

Since it would be a pity to leave my ATA100, 40 BG, 7200 rpm Maxtor on the motherboard's IDE 33, I'm thinking about getting a Promise card.

But, since I never used one, I don't know much about this subject.

Will I still be able to boot from the HD (like in regular setups), even if it's going through the card? Or should I get a second, smaller HD, and make it the main disk?

I want to do quite a bit of audio/video stuff, so I'm thinking maybe I can put Win98 and the applications on the small, bootable HD (a 5400rpm, 4GB should be enough, right?), and keep the Maxtor as the space monster, to play with audio and video files, games, text files etc.

Am I making any mistakes here? What do you advise?
 
Yes, the HD that you put on IDE1 or ide2 of the controller card can be your boot up drive. Your best setup is to have your boot drive with OS be the fastest HD you have and put it on the card.
 
you would be able to boot directly from the controller card yes, the only setting you have to change is the boot from list in ur bios, which the controller card is treated as a scsi device.
 
I see. Thanks guys!

What I meant in my original post (and while re-reading it I realized it didn't come across clearly) was that maybe I should put the small, slower HD on the IDE 1 of the motherboard, and keep just the Maxtor on the controller card.

Does this make sense?

Or will this slow down my system?
 
Really? I still need to take care of these things as well?

So, if I put a Seagate 4 GB 5400 as Master on the IDE1 (ATA33) connector of the motherboard (the slave on the same cable being a CD-RW) and I put the 7200 rpm Maxtor alone on the IDE1 ATA100 controller card, I still need to set the Maxtor as a Slave drive?

Here's how I'm thinking about putting together my system:

IDE1 (motherboard, ATA33): Seagate 4 GB as Master, HP CD-RW as Slave
IDE2 (motherboard, ATA33): Creative 6x DVD as Master, Aopen CD-ROM as Slave
and
IDE1 (Controller card, ATA100): Maxtor 40 GB as Master. Should I put it as Slave?

As I said earlier, I'd put Win98 and the programs (Quark, Office97, Premiere, Photoshop) on the small HD, and keep the Maxtor as the workhorse with recording, modifying and archiving files. The reason for this was I reasoned I'd never put anything else but vital data on the small drive, so that it has smaller chances to get corrupted.

But 4824guy says I should put the OS on the fastest drive. Any specific reasons?
 
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