Hoser
02-18-2002, 08:36 PM
I recently put the controller in my daily use computer. It had been gathering dust in another computer for a while. I wanted to have four devices, each on it's IDE channel. I attached them in this order: boot drive, CDRW, storage drive, DVD. The drives had no jumper on them since they were the only devices on the channel. The CDRW and DVD drives were set up as master devices.
When I used EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to rip a CD, it was incredibly fast. The entire CD would rip in about 3 minutes. This was a lot faster than before. I guess since the devices are on separate controllers, there's no waiting.
Then the problem started. At random intervals, the computer would freeze up solid. Right before it happened I would hear something that sounded like the boot drive was spinning down and parking the heads. Then the normal cursor would change to the waiting cursor. A couple seconds later the computer was locked up solid. I noticed that the drive LED was always on when it happened, so something was accessing the drive.
I ended moving the controller card to the PCI slot next to the AGP slot. Originally it was one slot over. Now there are no more lockups. I couldn't find any documentation that specifies which slot to use. I'm thinking that it may have been an IRQ conflict. The order of my PCI cards is now: IDE controller, Soundblaster Live, network card.
Has anyone else had similar problems? I'm just glad I figured out what was wrong.
When I used EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to rip a CD, it was incredibly fast. The entire CD would rip in about 3 minutes. This was a lot faster than before. I guess since the devices are on separate controllers, there's no waiting.
Then the problem started. At random intervals, the computer would freeze up solid. Right before it happened I would hear something that sounded like the boot drive was spinning down and parking the heads. Then the normal cursor would change to the waiting cursor. A couple seconds later the computer was locked up solid. I noticed that the drive LED was always on when it happened, so something was accessing the drive.
I ended moving the controller card to the PCI slot next to the AGP slot. Originally it was one slot over. Now there are no more lockups. I couldn't find any documentation that specifies which slot to use. I'm thinking that it may have been an IRQ conflict. The order of my PCI cards is now: IDE controller, Soundblaster Live, network card.
Has anyone else had similar problems? I'm just glad I figured out what was wrong.