[clue-tech] Help with 2 hard drives on same IDE

[Angelo Bertolli]

Jeff Schroeder wrote:

>A general rule is to split drives amongst as many IDE interfaces as 
>possible-- not really for the reason you're describing here, but for 
>performance reasons.  You'll get better throughput if you're not 
>sending twice the data (i.e., two drives) down one cable.  Plus, if the 
>IDE interface on the motherboard dies for some reason, you won't 
>(potentially) hork two drives.
>
>Along those lines, if you happen to have IDE cards (e.g., Promise) so 
>you can support half a dozen drives, you'd want to split the drives 
>across the cables as much as possible.
>  
>
Thanks for the tips.  Actually I'm just using the MB IDE controllers, 
and I have 2 burners and 2 HD, so I figured if I were going to do HD -> 
burner much, that's probably more critical.  (Esp since one of the 
drives is only for backup--ironic huh?)

Anyway, my current plan is to:
1) Run diagnostic, if that says ok then run FIXMBR and FIXBOOT from 
Windows and call it fixed.
2) If it says there is damage, then get a replacement from Western Digital

But now, I'm really paranoid about this.  This is only the second time 
in almost 10 years that I've tried to do this, and both times I had a 
problem with one of the hard drives.  Last time, I thought it was 
because I was mixing an 80-wire drive with a 40-wire drive, so I thought 
this should be no problem.

Angelo

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