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I am absolutely sure of Mark's statement about combining CDROM and ATA100.
You should not do that! The issue is that as soon as you access the CDROM
from the interface, it will tie up the communication until it completes. So
think about how long it takes to access the CD versus accessing a ATA100
compatible disk drive. If you are suing ATA100 for high-speed disk access,
putting the CDROM on there defeats the purpose. The CDROM will not run any
faster than if you put it on a much slower interface.
So move that CDROM off onto another interface. My experience has been that
most Motherboards have built-in ATA interfaces for handling just CDROM and
low-end disk drives. Look carefully, you may already have answer in your
system!
Dennis Todd
-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Kaplun [mailto:ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:13 PM
To: Free; OMEGA-LIST
Subject: Re: Did I miss something?
Very interesting. Thanks, I will look at it.
Val
----- Original Message -----
From: "Free" <free@xxxxxxxx>
To: "OMEGA-LIST" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:54 PM
Subject: RE: Did I miss something?
> I use Partition Magic all the time to copy and move partitions (FAT,
FAT32,
> NTFS) without any of the problems your are seeing. I copy boot
partitions
> from drive to drive and resize, moving between IDE and SCSI, etc,
etc. No
> such problems. Sounds more like a hardware conflict than a SW
problem to
> me. Even though you have it jumpered correctly, I would double
check that,
> perhaps moving it to the primary on the secondary IDE channel. Good
luck.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Kaplun [mailto:ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:26 PM
> To: OMEGA-LIST
> Subject: Did I miss something?
>
>
> Hello List -
>
> I need your help and experience.
> Did anyone experienced such stuff and got away?
>
> I have 2 HDs.
> One is slave with data and Win95. Its jumpers on slave position and
> it hooked to the ribbon cable at slave plug (second plug). The
other
> is brand new HD Seagate ATA 60Gb 7200.
> I spent entire ten hours on partitioning my new HD 60Gb.
> I tried to partition/formatting as a single 2Gb partition and as a
> single
> 60Gb.
> I tried to partition/formatting as multiple 2Gb partitions.
> I tried to partition/formatting as FAT, as FAT32 and as NTFS.
> I tried to partition/formatting with "Partition Magic 6.0", with
> "Partition Commander 6.0" and with Win2k.
> I checked Win2k to accept existing formatting and to delete, create
> and format partition itself.
> I did ALL POSSIBLE VARIANTS AND COMBINATIONS.
>
> Win2k setup does accept no "foreign" not its own formatting.
> I got all the time the same message from Win2k: << Setup has
> determined that C: is corrupted and cannot be repaired. Setup
> cannot continue.>>
>
> I believe that "Partition Magic 6.0" and "Partition Commander 6.0"
> would find bad sector or would identify HD as a bad drive as well.
> They read and accepted each other's partitioning and formatting.
They
> are sophisticated programs and they did not detect a single bad
thing
> on HD.
>
> Wow! Did I miss something? Where is the dog buried?!
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Val
>
>
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