If your truly not using the controller why not remove it. As to how much it might slow the system, it might be a little slower at booting because the Plug - n - pray will have to detect, identify, and assign parameters to the controller and the OS will do the same. Generally this is no big deal with toady's processor speeds. What might be a big deal is ATA controllers use IRQ's, depending on if you have any FREE IRQ's or if this ATA controller has to SHARE an IRQ it may slow things down considerably. Notice there is nothing concrete there, too many variables exist to nail it down from here. -Jim- ~OoO~ wrote: >Anyone know if I leave an unused ATA-133 controller attached to my PCI bus, >will it slow or degrade my PCI bus? In other words, is there any reason NOT to >leave an ATA controller card attached if I'm not using it? >---Troth > >To unsub or change your email settings: >//www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > >To access our Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ >//www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > >For more info: >//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk > > > To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk
