Good morning to you Leonard, how are you today ? 

 JP> The two HDs are on the same IDE cable, M & S and the two CDs
 JP> are on the other IDE cable, again M & S.
 
 JP> Is the D:\ HD at ATA 33 slowing things down at all ?

 LE> I'd suspect so. 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. 

        Are you not going against the grain of the wider opinions here ?
        I got back into the box here to change all this to the HDs on
        one IDE and the CDs on tother because all were suggesting that
        it was the way to have it when before I had it the way you now
        suggest.   Strange !
        
        But I do not doubt that the Slave HD might be pulling all down
        at ATA 33 vs ATA 100 on the Master.

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