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nytvd
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_ 		23. March 2005 @ 04:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
when going into device manager in XP i see two primary IDE channels, two secondary IDE channels and two controllers. on this forum i see screen shots of people's device manager and they only have one of each - why do i have two of each - is this OK?
this is on a dell 4600 2.6ghz


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StanH1000
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_ 		23. March 2005 @ 08:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You probably have primary and secondary IDE channels directly plugged into motherboard and an additional IDE controller card plugged into a PCI slot (which will accomodate another primary and secondary channel). Multiple drives may necessitate this type of setup.
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nytvd
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_ 		23. March 2005 @ 09:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks for the reply.
i did not install another IDE PCI controller, only a firewire PCI card. do u think dell put another one in there? (don't think i saw it and i have opened up the case to install/replace stuff before)
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bbmayo
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_ 		23. March 2005 @ 09:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
More than likely your computer has SATA support.
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StanH1000
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_ 		23. March 2005 @ 10:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks bbmayo.
In my Sony Vaio computer the SATA hard drive is on a separate IDE controller as a Primary. The DVD burner (Primary) and DVD player (Secondary) are on the other IDE controller.
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nytvd
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_ 		23. March 2005 @ 10:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks all.
i have two burners on one IDE cable and one HD on another cable (am adding additional 80G HD to that cable very soon)

side note - how do i know which is which on the IDE channels ?
i DO know that the burners are on the IDE slot that is "deeper" on the mobo and the HD is on the "outside" slot. reason i am asking is i still have something on PIO and i can't seem to snap it back to UDMA.
burns are fast but maybe my encoding could be speeded up.

thanks again.
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bbmayo
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_ 		23. March 2005 @ 11:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you are going to get anothe mobo I would suggest you get the SATA drive it is much much faster, and looks like your mobo supports SATA, but you better check to be sure.. Also Plextor DVDRW makes a SATA drive ;-)
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nytvd
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_ 		23. March 2005 @ 11:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
no problem mixing IDE and SATA drives?
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_ 		23. March 2005 @ 14:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No not at all :-)
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