Just put a new hd on the slave connector of the cdrom ide cable.
pc reconises it but transfer rates are very slow, the jumper is on the "cs enabled " setting. am i not doing something or is it not possible to run a hd from this cable ?

DMA mode enabled in Windows?

Cheers ^Rogue^ I took a look at the settings for the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers on the motherboard and that drive was set to PIO mode
Another q tho, my main drive is set at
Ultra DMA 6 - Ultra 133 while the slave is at
Ultra DMA 5 - Ultra 100
should these be the same ?

no, ATA133 and ATA100 are not the same kind of drive and no, they wouldn't have the same DMA setting for two seperate drives either.

Is your slave drive a Samsung? If so you might be able to set it to 133 using the HUtil on their website.

erm, if it isn't a ATA133 it won't

Forcing a ATA100 to ATA133 will cause corruption and crappy data rates.

no its a maxtor, still alls working fine now

The newer Samsung HHDs are infact ATA133 but they run as ATA100 by default. So in that case it's ok to set them to 133 and that's what I had in mind.

newer, not all samsungs. A blanket recommendation can increase the world's population of paper weights

The methods meant for a couple of models which samsung f*cked up, just to clarify in case someone has read that and doesn't have one of those few samsung drives it appleis to

I'm pretty sure HUtil will only let you set HDDs which are capable of it to 133, so no danger.