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Slow Harddisk
Name: NAN Date: November 20, 2003 at 18:31:42 Pacific OS: 2000 CPU/Ram: 1.4Gp4 512 DRR
Comment:
Mobo Soyo PX400 Dragon Lite 1 30G WD hardisk and 1 120G WD harddisk VIA chipset
This mobo has 2 IDE channels on it and i use one of them for CD and DVD rooms. The other left(IDE1) i use it to connect both of my harddisks. However..i have been experiencing a sluggish reading and writting of both harddisk. The read speed is about 3.2 MB/s sooo slow. I don't have that problem if i run only one hd..and i didn't have that problem before with the same setting. I have checked that they are running in ULtra DMA mode (devices manager). The only thing that i disable is writting cache.
Name: john Date: November 21, 2003 at 01:27:25 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
are both drives the same speed.... Meaning both 7200 or both 5400 ?
This can influence the speed of the disks..
Try to set one hd with a cd-rom and the other with the dvd and see if the speed is the same.
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Response Number 2
Name: NAN Date: December 5, 2003 at 15:41:20 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you for the input! However, put cd with hd..the hd would work to the speed of cd, same to hd. I decided to buy a ATA card and it solve the problem. Thank you again!
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