Sata drive on 3rd slave

[andru]

i have a new computer with a 250gig sata hard drive and i notice on the boot up screen that it is on channel 3.Is this detrimentle to the performance of the computer as it take an awfull long time to boot up and the performance seems to be very slow.Would i be better to put it onto channel 1?

thanks

[Davor]

Check the HD LED while booting. If it's constantly on then the HD is the problem.

Check that the transfer mode is UDMA 5 or more

It shouldn't make any difference on which channel it is.

If not, then the problem is elswhere.

Greets

Davor

Edited September 6, 2005 by Davor

[andru]

yes the red light is constantly on when booting up i have tried bootvis but this does not show anything up when it starts even in the left hand pane where all the drivers etc should show up.

[Davor]

well, i guess the chance is pretty big you are in PI/O mode... go in computer management - devices and see if you can change it to UDMA