Hi ,

Can you disconnect the 2nd data cable from the CD Rom and connect a 2nd HD
to it?

How is the speed and reliability of the CPU and the DATA cable affected by
using one HD or using 2 HD's?

How would you connect the average XP home PC to work with heavy duty Multi
Media Video, etc. with 1 or more DATA cables and 1 or more HD's?

Regards,

Novice in New Orleans, Louisiana, Enjoy Your Gumbo
XP Home ; Presario 2.6 ; 1GIG RAM

To the best of my knowledge, as long as you have the fastest device on the
end plug of a cable, you can have any device on it. The other devices can
only go as fast as the end one.

"New Orleans Novice" <ReadingLearningWriting@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:eX%23Rg7ylIHA.1912@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi ,
>
> Can you disconnect the 2nd data cable from the CD Rom and connect a 2nd HD
> to it?
>
> How is the speed and reliability of the CPU and the DATA cable affected by
> using one HD or using 2 HD's?
>
> How would you connect the average XP home PC to work with heavy duty Multi
> Media Video, etc. with 1 or more DATA cables and 1 or more HD's?
>
> Regards,
>
> Novice in New Orleans, Louisiana, Enjoy Your Gumbo
> XP Home ; Presario 2.6 ; 1GIG RAM
>

Food for thought, considerations. Data is kept in RAM for copying to
another hard drive. Hard drives are dealt with independently in the case of
IDE, and USB. Scsi has allowances for simultaneous usage of its hard
drives. Firewire has a similar asset as its written into its firmware.
Slaves can affect masters speed on ide. The availabilty of free RAM is much
a part of the picture as anything else. Swapfile location in RAM, on the
local boot partition and so forth, the swapfile size also plays a part.
System restore enabled on non windows partition can also affect performance
as may interrupt the ongoing process by slowing it down. The use of a
timed standby or hibernate on a user not interacting PC can kill a process
ongoing, or affect it at the very least. Opening and using other
applications can also affect other ongoing processes.
--
Dave

How about a tax to support any military conflict/police action over 3 months
old?

An actual war, we can do what's been done in the past.

Thanks for your help and tips ; LsuEdu @ New Orleans Louisiana

I thought maybe 1 HD for C:\ the OS and a 2nd HD for D:\ the VIdeo DATA
files.

The 2nd idea of a 2nd Data cable IF it worked on a 2nd HD for more speed
and/or reliability while runing heavy duty Multi Media video, etc.

If there is a 2nd HD will one DATA cable be faster as it only has so much
band width? Or with 2 HD's is it more reliable with the OS and programs
running from the C:\ Drive and the Video DATA files located on the 2nd D:\
Drive?

Thanks for your help and tips ; LsuEdu @ New Orleans Louisiana

New Orleans Novice wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> Can you disconnect the 2nd data cable from the CD Rom and connect a 2nd HD
> to it?
>
> How is the speed and reliability of the CPU and the DATA cable affected by
> using one HD or using 2 HD's?
>
> How would you connect the average XP home PC to work with heavy duty Multi
> Media Video, etc. with 1 or more DATA cables and 1 or more HD's?
>
> Regards,
>
> Novice in New Orleans, Louisiana, Enjoy Your Gumbo
> XP Home ; Presario 2.6 ; 1GIG RAM
>
>

This is a long read, but you'll be a better person if you finish it.

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf.htm

The best data cables, are the ones with 80 wires (thinner wire).

The connector on the end of the cable should be populated first,
for signal integrity reasons. Placing a single drive on the middle
connector, means the end connector is a giant stub. And the
reflections upset the data and mean the transferred data can
be corrupted. That is why a single drive, goes on the end of the
80 wire cable.

The transfer rates of the two drives on the cable, for modern devices,
are independent of one another.

Obviously, if two drives are on the same cable, the computer
can only talk to one drive at a time. Consult the above guide,
for more comments on the subject of sharing the cable.

Paul

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:08:16 -0500, "New Orleans Novice"
<ReadingLearningWriting@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi ,
>
>Can you disconnect the 2nd data cable from the CD Rom and connect a 2nd HD
>to it?
>
>How is the speed and reliability of the CPU and the DATA cable affected by
>using one HD or using 2 HD's?
>
>How would you connect the average XP home PC to work with heavy duty Multi
>Media Video, etc. with 1 or more DATA cables and 1 or more HD's?
>
>Regards,
>
>Novice in New Orleans, Louisiana, Enjoy Your Gumbo
>XP Home ; Presario 2.6 ; 1GIG RAM
>
What does this have to do with the OS? NOTHING. It is purely
hardware related and since it does not involve XP does NOT belong
here.

Ask elsewhere

Hi Paul,

Very good.

Thanks for the intelligent detailed reply. I may test by moving the ( COMPAQ
PRESARIO S5100 ) IDE Data cable to a 2nd HD. The PC CPU 2.60GHz may be
faster with the XP Home OS / and Video Programs / hitting the C:\ Drive and
the Video DATA files hitting the D:\ Drive.

Also each HD would use its own DATA cable.

Gary @ New Orleans

Farad'n, you are a brave litttle boy behind a keyboard.

Paul Maudib wrote:

> What does this have to do with the OS? NOTHING. It is purely
> hardware related and since it does not involve XP does NOT belong
> here.
>
> Ask elsewhere

Farad'n (aka Paul Thoroughgood, aka Maudib) -

I see your signiture changed, but not your message. By the way,
if you really want a make-over (a new signiture) you must change
ISPs and the electronic path to this board (Although Australians
are at a big disadvantage in that respect). And if you keep the
old ISP as well, you can pretend to be two people; each greatly
appreciating the wise words of the other. What genius!

For a 42 year old who outta know better, you can change your
signitiure a million times, it won't matter. If all you can offer is
"does NOT belong here", it's the message that we don't need.

By the way Paul, are you still slummin' in Taigum?

Ed