OT: Hard Drive Performance Advice

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:42:29PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> I have to wonder, because I surely didn't know--I guess I assume the BIOS
> was set to autodetect, and Windows listing it despite the fact the BIOS
> didn't autodetect completely didn't help tell me--I didn't know that this
> kind of incomplete detection was actually possible, nor have any idea of
> the impact it would have on the system.  I have to wonder just how many
> people add drives to their systems without knowing about this and suffer
> really poor performance because of it.

I haven't ever seen it happen.

I've been hanging new hard drives on motherboards for 15 years, and
I've never seen any OS detect a drive that was set as NONE in a BIOS.

I think it was just Hallowe'en luck, Mark.

Cheers,
-- jra
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