Sleeping HD

[tour93]

Hello,
I have two hardrive ata100 and ata66. When I'm using the computer I can hear after few minutes an hd, I guess the second, slowing down and stopping. When I try to access it with windows explorer I can hear it restarting and all my computer slow down, mouse cannot move or little, open windows cannot be selected, I cannot do anything for a few seconds, the time the hd get up to speed. (it takes about 5 seconds or more)
How could I avoid that?
Thanks
Alain

System:
Athlon Thunderbird 1.4
MSI K7 MASTER (6341)
512mb DDR PC2100
geforce3 ti 500
gf2 mx200 32 pci
drivers 40.72
WIN 2K pro

 

[tour93]

Maybe I should change my set up. Right now I have :
Primary: master ata100, slave ata66
Secondary: master cd, slave dvdrw
I should change to:
Primary: master ata100, slave cd
Secondary: master ata66, slave dvdrw
What do you think?

System:
Athlon Thunderbird 1.4
MSI K7 MASTER (6341)
512mb DDR PC2100
geforce3 ti 500
gf2 mx200 32 pci
drivers 40.72
WIN 2K pro

 

[Toejam31]

I'd leave the current arrangement just as it is. Devices with an ATAPI command set, ideally, shouldn't be on the same cable as IDE devices, as this can cause CRC errors, and force the IDE devices into PIO mode, instead of DMA. This is especially applicable with older optical devices, which are often set to PIO mode by default in WinXP. DMA and PIO mode devices do not play well together.

As for the hard drive slowing down and stopping, have you checked your power management settings to see if the hard drives are being put into sleep mode after a specified period of time?

Start/Settings/Control Panel/Power Options

Toey

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