standard ide vs promise

[Six Eyed Smily]

i have an asus a7v133 motherboard. it has two ide controlers, the standard ide controller and the promise on which supports raid 0.
i have no plans to use raid 0.
however, in a moment of boredom, i tried my harddrive on my standard ide and the promise controller to see which ws fastest.
it turned out that the promise was faster at writing while the standard ide was faster at reading. which would you reccomend i use for max performance?

[Mustang]

The majoprity of the people i know (including myself) have the drives on the promise controller. and cd roms on the standard ide's

[Lycia]

Originally posted by Mustang:
<STRONG>The majoprity of the people i know (including myself) have the drives on the promise controller. and cd roms on the standard ide's</STRONG>

Ditto. Although I have a Highpoint controller rather than a Promise. I have all harddrives on Highpoint controller and CdRom and other IDE devices on Standard controller. basically, you want to treat it as if you had one IDE controller, You wouldnt put your CDRom on the same IDE channel that you have your harddrive, it would slow it down. However, if you have hard drive on Promise IDE 1 and CDRom on Promise IDE 2, performance wont suffer, but you are taking away a Faster IDE channel. Best to keep it like Mustang says...

[Darren Wilson]

And although it is really related as such to this issue the latest BIOS for the Highpoint RAID controllers (ver 1.11) on the Abit Boards has had all ATAPI support removed hence only HDD's can be used on them from now on.

[Six Eyed Smily]

thanks. il epit on the promise controller then.
ps: is it just me or do you find it odd that my hard drive tranfers data no faster on udma 100 than on udma 33?
its a maxtor diamondmax plys 60 20.4 gb (a very fast ide hd that is udma 100 compatible)
i use win 2k professional sp2