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| Thread ID: 39955 | 2003-11-23 00:53:00 | 2nd hard drive running like a dog when copying between drives | shaneblyth (2366) | Press F1 |
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| 194071 | 2003-11-23 00:53:00 | I have a 20 gig hard drive on my system that is running off the raid controller on my motherboard.. it is the boot drive the system is a 1800 athalon with 512 of ddr ram. i instyalled a second drive on the first IDE port (set as master but not bootable) it is a new 80 gig drive... both drives are 7200rpm everything seems to run at a decent speed till i want to copy to or from one drive and the other drive.. a 700 meg file will take about 5-6 minutes to copy hard drive to hard drive. seems about the speed of a cd rom drive... the cd rom is on the second ide port so the new drive is the only one on the first ide port. any ideas on whats wrong here ? thise is lates winxp with all updates ... on a network but when i copy to or from the other pc's on the system to the new hard drive runs at normal network speeds ok cheers |
shaneblyth (2366) | ||
| 194072 | 2003-11-23 00:57:00 | check that motherboard drivers and raid card drivers are installed and that DMA is turned on (under device manager). | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 194073 | 2003-11-23 01:15:00 | thanks the winxp raid drivers are installed ok under device manager no problems there... i noticed in the ide ata/atapi contollers there is not any problems but under the prinmary ide channel where the new segate 80gig 7200rpm drive is that it says.. device 0 type ... auto detection (greyed out) transfer mode is DMA if available... (only other option PIO mode current transfer mode is PIO mode dont seem to be able to change any of this device 1 there is no drive here so irrelevant secondary chnnel where there is a cd writer and dvd drive attached says similar but current mode is .. multiword DMA mode 2 which is more what ia ssume the primary channel should be showing as PIO mode is a bit slower isnt it ? any ideas if this is the problem and if so how to fix it... if one channel si showing the faster modes I assume that means that they are dma enabled on the pc so shouldnt that then mena it should be available on both channels ? cheers |
shaneblyth (2366) | ||
| 194074 | 2003-11-23 01:25:00 | Make sure that that IDE channel hasn't been disabled in the BIOS. :D There's a fair chance it would still work like that, but without BIOS autodetect to give hints to the OS, so it might be a bit limited in what it would do. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 194075 | 2003-11-23 06:41:00 | Maybe worthwhile having a look at this MS article: support.microsoft.com it may apply. I have a 20GB Western Digital I was unable to get to run faster than mode 0 in XP for some reason, so relegated it as a backup drive. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 194076 | 2003-11-23 09:46:00 | fixed problem... deleted ide primary port in device manager disabled raid and put both drives on the primamry ide.. now it is fine cheers for everyones help |
shaneblyth (2366) | ||
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