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Dennis, - I appreciate your concern, but if you will read my messages
you will see that I NEVER combined CD with HD.  HD always stayed on
IDE0 and CD ROM on IDE1.
Thanks,

Val

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Todd" <dtodd@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Igor Kaplun" <ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "OMEGA-LIST" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 2:27 PM
Subject: RE: Did I miss something?


> I am absolutely sure of Mark's statement about combining CDROM and
ATA100.
> You should not do that! The issue is that as soon as you access the
CDROM
> from the interface, it will tie up the communication until it
completes. So
> think about how long it takes to access the CD versus accessing a
ATA100
> compatible disk drive. If you are suing ATA100 for high-speed disk
access,
> putting the CDROM on there defeats the purpose. The CDROM will not
run any
> faster than if you put it on a much slower interface.
>
> So move that CDROM off onto another interface. My experience has
been that
> most Motherboards have built-in ATA interfaces for handling just
CDROM and
> low-end disk drives. Look carefully, you may already have answer in
your
> system!
>
> Dennis Todd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Kaplun [mailto:ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:13 PM
> To: Free; OMEGA-LIST
> Subject: Re: Did I miss something?
>
>
> Very interesting.  Thanks, I will look at it.
>
> Val
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Free" <free@xxxxxxxx>
> To: "OMEGA-LIST" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:54 PM
> Subject: RE: Did I miss something?
>
>
> > I use Partition Magic all the time to copy and move partitions
(FAT,
> FAT32,
> > NTFS) without any of the problems your are seeing.  I copy boot
> partitions
> > from drive to drive and resize, moving between IDE and SCSI, etc,
> etc.  No
> > such problems.  Sounds more like a hardware conflict than a SW
> problem to
> > me.  Even though you have it jumpered correctly, I would double
> check that,
> > perhaps moving it to the primary on the secondary IDE channel.
Good
> luck.
> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Kaplun [mailto:ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:26 PM
> > To: OMEGA-LIST
> > Subject: Did I miss something?
> >
> >
> > Hello List -
> >
> > I need your help and experience.
> > Did anyone experienced such stuff and got away?
> >
> > I have 2 HDs.
> > One is slave with data and Win95.  Its jumpers on slave position
and
> > it hooked to the ribbon cable at slave plug (second plug).  The
> other
> > is brand new HD Seagate ATA 60Gb 7200.
> > I spent entire ten hours on partitioning my new HD 60Gb.
> > I tried to partition/formatting as a single 2Gb partition and as a
> > single
> > 60Gb.
> > I tried to partition/formatting as multiple 2Gb partitions.
> > I tried to partition/formatting as FAT, as FAT32 and as NTFS.
> > I tried to partition/formatting with "Partition Magic 6.0", with
> > "Partition Commander 6.0" and with Win2k.
> > I checked Win2k to accept existing formatting and to delete,
create
> > and format partition itself.
> > I did ALL POSSIBLE VARIANTS AND COMBINATIONS.
> >
> > Win2k setup does accept no "foreign" not its own formatting.
> > I got all the time the same message from Win2k:  << Setup has
> > determined that C: is corrupted and cannot be repaired. Setup
> > cannot continue.>>
> >
> > I believe that "Partition Magic 6.0" and "Partition Commander 6.0"
> > would find bad sector or would identify HD as a bad drive as well.
> > They read and accepted each other's partitioning and formatting.
> They
> > are sophisticated programs and they did not detect a single bad
> thing
> > on HD.
> >
> > Wow!  Did I miss something?  Where is the dog buried?!
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Val
> >
> >
>