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hd jumpers - is "Cable Select" best?
I have a Compaq Presario S4020WM purchased from Wal-Mart last year. I
replaced the original hard drive with 120G and 80G drives. My question is whether it makes a difference in performance whether I selected Master and Slave for the jumper settings, or Cable Select for one or both of them? I can't remember offhand. Of course I can open up the computer case and look, but I'd like to know beforehand if possible. This question is prompted by the fact that I'm getting slow hard drive access with my primary application, slow enough that it is slowing down that program significantly, and I don't think that is supposed to happen. Most other people using the same application and ordinary PCs don't report such a problem. I suppose this could also be a problem with bus speed and the motherboard, but I don't know about such things. Also in reading I notice that the channels used by the drives are important, but I don't know how to check them. Any advice appreciated. They're both Maxtor drives, and of course they're on the same Maxtor IDE cable - one at the end connector, the other on the middle connector. Here's some system specs: 2.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP 992 Megabytes Installed Memory Board: KM266-8235 Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8375 ProSavageDDR KM266 Bus Clock: 133 megahertz BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD AM37320 08/01/2003 S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR [Display adapter] MAXTOR 6L080J4 [Hard drive] (80.05 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 664213219209, rev A93.0500, SMART Status: Healthy Maxtor 6Y120P0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y31WBLZE, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy -E |
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