Need additional info!

[Alon Brodski]

Hey!

Thanks a lot for your advice!

From what you had told me I understood that if I have a UDMA/33 motherboard
and add a PCI ATA/100 controller card,then even though I won't get beyond
33MB/s (mainboard bottleneck),but still it would be closer to that
theoretical limit,than if I was using old UDMA/33 built in controller?

The reason why I don't feel like wasting an old HD has nothing to do with
space.I don't feel like wasting time to start everything again from the
scratch,nor do I want to use 3rd party software (that needs to be also
BOUGHT)
Partition Magic from Symantec now would cost me like $70 and a new HD like
80.So why bother?
2nd reason is that I'd rather have 2 different partitions- NTFS and FAT on 2
different physical disks.
The only unclear part is how to install Win 98SE on a second HD and to have
a multi boot enabled (after having XP already running).

Another question is....if I install that PCI card....what would happen with
master/slave scheme of ATA in my system? Meaning...I know that normally in a
system you have 2 IDE channels and you can have 4 units installed on them.So
if I add a new controller on a card-then what?I can have up to 8 units then
or not? (like 4 channels with 2 devices on each).And it also is unclear what
you meant exactly when you proposed me to experiment with my older HD to get
a better performance...Say if I have a newer one as a master on one channel
on a PCI card....then the older HD to put as a master on a 1st channel on
the motherboard?(same where it's now)
Or you meant that I should still put the older HD on a PCI card,but on a
different channel there (not the one with newer disk) and also put the older
disk as a master there?I would have like 3 masters in the system them

thanks in advance,

--
Yours truly,
Alon Brodski

 

[Yves Leclerc]

First: adding a PCI ATA/100 controller will give the full speed to the
UDMA/ATA100 hard drives connected to it.

Second: the original UDMA/33 ports on the motherboard will still be
available. Therefore, on the PCI ATA/100 controller will add to the total
number of drives you can have: 4 on motherboard + 4 on PCI ATA/100 = 8
drives

Third: To move the Windows Xp completrely to the new drive, usually the
harddrive manufacturer would normally provide a utility to copy to the new
drive. It would be available on their web site.

Forth: To use the PC ATA/100 to boot XP, you will need to install the PCI
card drivers. This may require the driver to be installed during setup of
XP. You may have to re-install XP.

Fifth: The Master/Slave scheme will still apply.

 

[Alon Brodski]

Hey!

Thanks for the advice...but my question still stands-how to have a dual boot
system (Win XP/Win98SE) without using 3rd party boot managers.I understand
about installing another controller/HD,but how to have DUAL BOOT available?
Plus....BX chipset....does it support UDMA/100/133? what about BIOS (1999)

Alon