IDE interface on SB card. Speed?

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Hi y'all,

I've got a machine here, an old one certainly, that is using an ISA
Soundblaster. It has an IDE interface on it that, just for the hell of it, I
have hooked a 2.4GB HDD up to. It works fine but is slow. The drive, when
connected to the mobo IDE, reports UMDA2. (BX board, ATA33). I was just
wondering, does anyone know what speed/protocol the Creative IDE controller
is? I could benchmark it I guess but I thought I'd ask here first. I'm
thinking it's PIO-something. The machine is running 98SE and I can't seem to
find any info about it's speed/access method in device manager. The tab for
this IDE channel is totally different to the on-board ones.

I just like the idea of getting an extra IDE channel 'free' basically,
although I don't need it on this machine. I'm just doing it for the sake of
it. It has two free positions available on the on-board IDE as it is. The
machine has a C: dive (8GB Samsung) and a CD-ROM, both operating at UDMA33.
I toyed with the idea of putting the CD-ROM on the SB IDE but then I don't
have the option to boot from CD as it is only recognised when Windows loads.

Cheers,
 
What is your Q?
The SB IDE will be slower (or possibly same) speed as the IDE channel on the
MB. Give us some specs and we can give a definitive answer.
 
~misfit~ said:
I've got a machine here, an old one certainly, that is using an ISA
Soundblaster. It has an IDE interface on it that, just for the hell of it, I
have hooked a 2.4GB HDD up to. It works fine but is slow. The drive, when
connected to the mobo IDE, reports UMDA2. (BX board, ATA33). I was just
wondering, does anyone know what speed/protocol the Creative IDE controller
is? I could benchmark it I guess but I thought I'd ask here first. I'm
thinking it's PIO-something. The machine is running 98SE and I can't seem to
find any info about it's speed/access method in device manager. The tab for
this IDE channel is totally different to the on-board ones.

I just like the idea of getting an extra IDE channel 'free' basically,
although I don't need it on this machine. I'm just doing it for the sake of
it. It has two free positions available on the on-board IDE as it is. The
machine has a C: dive (8GB Samsung) and a CD-ROM, both operating at UDMA33.
I toyed with the idea of putting the CD-ROM on the SB IDE but then I don't
have the option to boot from CD as it is only recognised when Windows loads.
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Well its a 16 bit ISA card which at 8MHz can do max. 16MB/s but this is
shared with the sound chip so 8.3MB/s PIO mode 2 would be most you could
expect.
 
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