can anyone tell me why or what the difference is between basic and dynamic disks in xp?? I've got 4 physical harddrives, 2 have already taken the primary and secondary IDE ports on my motherboard. The other 2 are located on a ATA133 controller card which has them shown up as dynamic.

I noticed that I can do a quick format on the 2 harddrives connected to my controller card in Administrative Tools. I thought I was having problems when it took about 5 hours to format a 120gb harddrive partitioned into 2 partitions of 60gb each. I just happened to try a quick format, reinitialize and then noticed it was a healthy partition.