Paul,

I've never tried that configuration myself, but I can just imagine the
performance. It would be hard *not* to notice. <g>

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HTH,
Curt

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"Paul Randall" <paulr901@cableone.net> wrote in message
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> <holysmokes99********.com> wrote in message
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>> Lately my computer has been having real trouble playing videos
>> (extremely jerky), and even scrolling through a long list of files in
>> a directory in windows explorer (jerky scrolling). I ran some tests
>> using HD Tune and HD Tach to see if it was a hard drive issue, and low
>> and behold the read speed is terrible. I am getting a maximum read
>> rate of about 4MB/Sec. My drive is a 120GB Maxtor 4R120LO. Is there
>> anything I can do to fix this? I defragged it but no difference. Can
>> it be saved?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Marcus
>
> I once had a similar problem. I had set up my PC with two CD drives and
> two hard drives. I thought I would get better hard drive access if I put
> one CD and one hard drive on eaxh of the IDE cables. With their locations
> in the PC case, it seemed best to make the CDs the primary and the hard
> drives the secondary devices. Big mistake. It was sooooooo slow.
> Changing the hard drives to primary device on both IDE cables solved the
> problem.
>
> -Paul Randall
>