Ide

[nk33]

I have 2 hard drives and 2 cd/dvd roms.

At the moment, I have both hard drives on the same IDE cable. Things slow down a lot when I transfer a lot of data between drives. Would it be better to have each hard drive on a different cable..and the same with the dvd/cd roms?

Thanks

[s7p9a2m4]

You have two ide ports on your motherboard. One is primary and one is secondary.

You want both hard drives as master/slave on the primary port.

You want both cdroms on the secondary port.

Use 80 pin cables.

Perhaps your processor isn't big enough to handle big jobs?

[xcrunner503]

what are your computer specs? cuz im sure the cable it is on really doesnt affect it

[nk33]

I have comp setup exactly as s7p9a2m4 has said.

My specs are :

intel p4 2.8ghz
512 Ram
80 gb hd
xp pro sp2