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| 129846 | 2003-03-21 06:56:00 | I have a 2 year old(ish) IBM-DTLA-307030. I'm pretty sure its Ultra ATA-100 (from www4.tomshardware.com). The benchmark from SiSoftware is 22850 kB/s. This seems rather slow to me. Question - is this a slow benchmark - if it is, is their something I can do to take it to full speed (in the bios perhaps)? The rest of my system is AMD XP 1600+, PC Chips M825 AMD Motherboard (http://www.pcchips.com.tw). Thanks in advance. Paul |
pavlr (3220) | ||
| 129847 | 2003-03-21 07:24:00 | Hi Is DMA enabled? Go to control panel (assuming windows ?) System > Device Manager for win95-98 or 2k System > Hardware > Device Manager (tab) and look for IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers expand the + and double click on your hard disc goto the settings tab and enable DMA or Ultra DMA if it is available. HTH Murray P PS. post back. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 129848 | 2003-03-21 08:26:00 | Thanks Murray, Win XP Home devise type: autodetection transfer mode: dma if available current transfer mode: ultra dma mode 5 Is this okay? Paul. |
pavlr (3220) | ||
| 129849 | 2003-03-21 12:55:00 | Yep. Is it the benchmark that is causing you to enquire or are your access times slow. Try another benchmark. The data rate of a drive will rarely hit peak (100MB/s) and only for a brief time at that. It will also need all things to be in favour, right cable for eg; 80wire. If the comp is not appreciabley slow or slowing down don't worry too much. Have a cruze around here I find this site very helfull techtutorials.com Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 129850 | 2003-03-21 13:54:00 | have a hunt for a prog by the name of HDTACH. this will benchmark you drive. however it wont be a real life speed as windows makes the biggest diffence in speed. things like antivirus can influence the hardrive speed. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 129851 | 2003-03-21 22:08:00 | Remember also to install your motherboard drivers, etc. I had a Maxtor ATA133 which wasn't performing. Realised I had forgotten to install the relevant drivers for the mobo! Lo. |
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