Ide cable to hard drives

Ok i have one ide cable running my two hard drive's master and slave 2 X 80's ? would it be better for me to take the slave off the ide cable as i have the two comeing off the one ide and run it in the spear ide socket i have on my mobo.
I think it would and find the slave faster in windows as there seem to be a bit of a lag when i hit the slave in windows, not a lot but just think it would work better on its own.
? what do you think.
Cheers for all info as i have never befor tryed this and just think it would get rid of the lag on the slave, maybe not.

Quote from: DOK on 06-October-06, 03:02:10
Uncle Bob what does the text say above the speed test box for Nvidia, Cant make it out ,under primary control, Thanks DOK
At the top are three tabs; Driver: Details: Resources.
Next row of tabs; General; Primary Channel; Secondary Channel.
Under primary Channel is Master drive.
WDC WD400JD-55MSA1
Transfer mode:
Serial ATA DMA (this is grayed out)
Let BIOS select transfer mode (box is checked)
Enable read caching (grayed out) Speed Test Box
Enable write caching (Box checked)
Enable command queuing (grayed out)
Next box down is for slave drive, which I do not have.
Does this answer your question?

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