Configuration problem?

Hi. My problem is that two of my drives are failing. I got a UltaAta/133
card, and I have 3 devices and 2 HD's connected like this:

Primary channel of the Ultra Ata: master, main HD (160 Gig) and a DVD-ROM as
slave.

Secondary channel of the Ultra Ata: Master, a second HD (60 Gig), slave: a
CD-RW.

And plugged to the primary channel of the motherboard, a DVD+RW.

This last is giving problems , specifically reading problems, and booting
from it. For Cdrom boot, I have to use this drive because the others need
the driver to the card before they can move.

Do you think my problem is a configuration problem, and if so, can you tell
me what's the best way to connect them? The DVD-ROM is also failing in the
same way, but I am not very concerned about it.

Teilhard

The dvd-rom and the cd-rw should NOT be on the same channel as the hard
drives,they will slow the hard drives down,the channel will only runat the
speeed of the slowest drive attached,better to have both ATA drives as
master and slave on one and the cd-dvd on the otherDoes the DVD+RW support
cd's?,I suppose it must,but I wuold have thought the CD-rw was a better BOOT
device.
"Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Hi. My problem is that two of my drives are failing. I got a UltaAta/133
> card, and I have 3 devices and 2 HD's connected like this:
>
> Primary channel of the Ultra Ata: master, main HD (160 Gig) and a DVD-ROM
as
> slave.
>
> Secondary channel of the Ultra Ata: Master, a second HD (60 Gig), slave: a
> CD-RW.
>
> And plugged to the primary channel of the motherboard, a DVD+RW.
>
> This last is giving problems , specifically reading problems, and booting
> from it. For Cdrom boot, I have to use this drive because the others need
> the driver to the card before they can move.
>
> Do you think my problem is a configuration problem, and if so, can you
tell
> me what's the best way to connect them? The DVD-ROM is also failing in the
> same way, but I am not very concerned about it.
>
> Teilhard
>
>