IDE interface on SB card. Speed?

Hi y'all,

I've got a machine here, an old one certainly, that is using an ISA
Soundblaster. It has an IDE interface on it that, just for the hell of it, I
have hooked a 2.4GB HDD up to. It works fine but is slow. The drive, when
connected to the mobo IDE, reports UMDA2. (BX board, ATA33). I was just
wondering, does anyone know what speed/protocol the Creative IDE controller
is? I could benchmark it I guess but I thought I'd ask here first. I'm
thinking it's PIO-something. The machine is running 98SE and I can't seem to
find any info about it's speed/access method in device manager. The tab for
this IDE channel is totally different to the on-board ones.

I just like the idea of getting an extra IDE channel 'free' basically,
although I don't need it on this machine. I'm just doing it for the sake of
it. It has two free positions available on the on-board IDE as it is. The
machine has a C: dive (8GB Samsung) and a CD-ROM, both operating at UDMA33.
I toyed with the idea of putting the CD-ROM on the SB IDE but then I don't
have the option to boot from CD as it is only recognised when Windows loads.

Cheers,
--
~misfit~

What is your Q?
The SB IDE will be slower (or possibly same) speed as the IDE channel on the
MB. Give us some specs and we can give a definitive answer.
--


"I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!"
- Alceryes

"~misfit~" wrote in message
...
Hi y'all,

I've got a machine here, an old one certainly, that is using an ISA
Soundblaster. It has an IDE interface on it that, just for the hell of it,
I
have hooked a 2.4GB HDD up to. It works fine but is slow. The drive, when
connected to the mobo IDE, reports UMDA2. (BX board, ATA33). I was just
wondering, does anyone know what speed/protocol the Creative IDE
controller
is? I could benchmark it I guess but I thought I'd ask here first. I'm
thinking it's PIO-something. The machine is running 98SE and I can't seem
to
find any info about it's speed/access method in device manager. The tab
for
this IDE channel is totally different to the on-board ones.

I just like the idea of getting an extra IDE channel 'free' basically,
although I don't need it on this machine. I'm just doing it for the sake
of
it. It has two free positions available on the on-board IDE as it is. The
machine has a C: dive (8GB Samsung) and a CD-ROM, both operating at
UDMA33.
I toyed with the idea of putting the CD-ROM on the SB IDE but then I don't
have the option to boot from CD as it is only recognised when Windows
loads.

Cheers,
--
~misfit~

"~misfit~" wrote in message
...
I've got a machine here, an old one certainly, that is using an ISA
Soundblaster. It has an IDE interface on it that, just for the hell of it,
I
have hooked a 2.4GB HDD up to. It works fine but is slow. The drive, when
connected to the mobo IDE, reports UMDA2. (BX board, ATA33). I was just
wondering, does anyone know what speed/protocol the Creative IDE
controller
is? I could benchmark it I guess but I thought I'd ask here first. I'm
thinking it's PIO-something. The machine is running 98SE and I can't seem
to
find any info about it's speed/access method in device manager. The tab
for
this IDE channel is totally different to the on-board ones.

I just like the idea of getting an extra IDE channel 'free' basically,
although I don't need it on this machine. I'm just doing it for the sake
of
it. It has two free positions available on the on-board IDE as it is. The
machine has a C: dive (8GB Samsung) and a CD-ROM, both operating at
UDMA33.
I toyed with the idea of putting the CD-ROM on the SB IDE but then I don't
have the option to boot from CD as it is only recognised when Windows
loads.


Well its a 16 bit ISA card which at 8MHz can do max. 16MB/s but this is
shared with the sound chip so 8.3MB/s PIO mode 2 would be most you could
expect.