Hi Kawadevil
Thanks for your input.
At the moment I'm quite happy with my master drive running on the PRIMARY M/B PORT. The drive is ATA133 and so is the m/b and I installed XP in just 12 minutes from when you see "set will complete in 39 minutes".
Not sure if I'd lose performance if I connect the drive to the Promise IDE port, because IDE 3 and 4 only support ATA100.
No doubt I will have a few more q's as I use the new m/b, but I can always ask again at a later date so I'll close the thread until then.
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Regards