BL> Ahh... TWO cards? I didn't know you could do that. The CD
 BL> driver rabitted on about port addresses, and moving them
 BL> around.

 KR> it has always been possible physically to use 2 cards right
 KR> back to the days of mfm disks, its just that the bioses never
 KR> supported it. 

  Jeeze! That's a silly thing to say, keith. My old 386 once had two
cards (to give me another parallel port), but I could only use one of
them.

 BL> the guy threw in a VLB EIDE card for $10 because they are just
 BL> about obsolete too.

 KR> yearh, i paid $17 for one about 6 months ago.

  Mine was pre-loved... 

 BL> The card has a mystery: under "IDE MODE" there are four
 BL> switches for 600ns, 500nS, 400nS and 240nS. It was set at 600nS
 BL> so I left it there and it works okay, but what does it all
 BL> mean? Would it be worth trying 240nS, do you think?

 KR> from memory, the lower the number, the faster that the
 KR> interface goes, i suspect that it will make exactly bugger all
 KR> difference to the cd. 

  The IDE MODE switches do work. Brenton advised me to try the max and
now the newer Conner runs 25% faster and the WD250 is 10% faster! I
didn't test the CD... 240nS is a bit outside its range, I would think.

 BL> The other switch I didn't understand was IOCHRDY which could be
 BL> set to IDE0 or IDE1. I left it set tio IDE0 and it seems to
 BL> work. What does IOCHRDY mean?

 KR> there is a signal on the ide bus called iordy, it may be
 KR> something to do with that, you could change it to see what
 KR> happens, it wont hurt anything. 

  If it hurts anything, I know where you live .

  People have strange ideas of what electronics can do. One of the
twits on the SPCUG fitted a big hard drive and everything worked fine
until he ran Disk Manager, at which point the whole thing blew up. The
dreaded GPFs appeared, then the hard drive smoked, the controller
boards went weird... then the video, motherboard, CPU... JESUS! It
all blew up, one after the other.

  So naturally, he blamed Disc Manager! ROFL!! It was perfectly okay
until he ran Disc Manager and he wrote to warn everyone not to use it!

  The next month he comes back all apologetic about Disc Manager...
maybe it was really the faulty power supply and the 20V he put into
the system... but he's still got his doubts about Disc Manager.

Regards,
Bob



Regards,
Bob


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