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To: pae who wrote (3283)	10/29/1998 11:22:00 AM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

They recommend putting the CDROM on ide2 by itself with the 2 HDs on IDE1. My initial reaction is to agree with the people who wrote the BIOS. Whenever you use the CDROM you are mainly doing a CD disk to hard disk transfer. Hence for maximum CDROM to hard disk transfer speed I suspect you would want the CDROM and hard disk on separate channels. Unless you have an unusual setup when you are trading you will only be using one hard disk at a time. Hence the two hard disks can be on one channel. If you are doing disk to disk transfers or running multiple programs which save data to your two hard when trading then you might want to experiment with your hard disks on different channels. Hence one thing you have to check is how often and how much data is saved to disk when trading before deciding on which configuration is best for you. My food for thought.

To: pae who wrote (3283)	10/29/1998 12:48:00 PM
From: jw	Respond to of 14778

pae, hope we haven't given you a bum steer. Remember Murphy's Law. Seriously, i'm sure you will be happy with Tiger. cyberguys.com 800-892-1010, Rancho Cardova,Ca. These guys have almost everything in way of small parts, Removable Hard Drive/CDR/Floppy Racks w/cassette. Blank cable, ide/scsi/floppy and 68 wire. Crimping tool, edge connectors, you name it. Call for 70 page catalog. Have traded with them (straight shooters). hotfiles.zdnet.com Down load this small (560kb) Print Screen file (Print Key). Click on Print Screen, a window pops up with options, cancel/print screen, and tells you how much total memory and how much memory you have left.KOOL!!!(freeware). Thanks to Alfred Bolliger!. I'm not a techie and sorry can't answer your question. Regards, /jw ps;keep us posted.

To: pae who wrote (3283)	10/29/1998 5:40:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

config1: ide1 - HD3.2/master, CDROM/slave ide2 - HD7.6/master Config2: ide1 - HD3.2/master ide2 - HD7.6/master, CDROM/slave Config3: ide1 - HD3.2/master, HD7.6/slave ide2 - CDROM/slave As a practical matter, I have not seen any degradation of the master HD when a CD was on the IDE slave position. You would degrade the HD on the same controller as the CD while the CD was busy, but even if you copy from the CD to the HD on the same controller the degradation will probably not be particularly noticeable (any more than having two HDs on the same channel would be, at any rate). Essentially, unless the HD is pretty slow, the CD's speed will be the limiting factor in the transfer. This probably sounds more esoteric than it is. Since IDE controllers are single-threaded, copies from one device to another on the same controller have to wait for each other. Of course, they have to wait anyhow for actual data transfer (got to read it from x before you can write it to y, no matter what). Possibly the newer DMA IDE disks can actually overlap some data transfers; somebody knowledgeable about that might comment. Anyhow, you'll probably see your best overall performance with Config 2. You WILL use both HDs, unless you configure your swap files, program files, and all data on a single disk, which would not be a good plan. I'd suggest swap and data on the CTL 1 master and data on the CTL 2 master, though you might also want swap space there as well. IF you decide on Config 2 and later add another HD, do yourself a favor and move your 7.6 drive from ide2 master to ide1 slave and add your new drive as the ide2 master. That is, unless you REALLY enjoy changing drive letters in all your shortcuts. Also your newest disk will probably be faster and can work to your advantage as the master on ide2. Config 3 is a viable alternate, though you won't get as good a performance from the HDs. Chances are you won't notice the difference, practically speaking. (If you do notice the difference, SCSI would probably really benefit you). You WILL notice the difference in large disk-to-disk transfers, though. Config 2 will be significantly faster than config 3. Probably not a frequent problem. I don't actually know of a real problem with config 1, but it would worry me. But then I'm paranoid (so they say; personally I think someone's out to get me<g>). However, HD performance should be about the same as config 2, assuming my fears are unfounded. Spots