Hello Mike, it is a lovely day today. 

 LE> Also, you'll get better performance if you have each
 LE> HD as Master with a CD as slave on the same cable. That'll maximize HD
 LE> to HD transfer speeds.
 
 JP> Are you not going against the grain of the wider opinions here ?
 JP> I got back into the box here to change all this to the HDs on
 JP> one IDE and the CDs on tother because all were suggesting that
 JP> it was the way to have it when before I had it the way you now
 JP> suggest.   Strange !

        Where were you just before I changed my setup ? ;-))

 MR> I would guess that during the post the bios tests the controllers and
 MR> assigns a maximum dma speed to each. Thus if there are 2 fast and 2
 MR> slow devices then one might likely get better results if one grouped
 MR> the fast devices together on the same controller.

        The trouble is that I only have the one fast device the ATA 100
        one. The rest as assigned by the BIOS are ATA 33.

 MR>  I could be wrong...

        I am.  Back into the box with the proper screwdriver, soon.

 MR> Mike
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