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| Thread ID: 70421 | 2006-07-02 12:48:00 | Something definitely wrong with my hard drive | jeffreyyan (719) | Press F1 |
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| 468064 | 2006-07-02 12:48:00 | Ok, I tested my hard drive using seatools and it was fine, but I suspected it was something else so I benchmarked it. A picture is at tinyurl.com The top 2 curves are of my 200GB and 160GB SATA drives. The bottom curve is of the new 300GB SATAII drive. Does anyone know what could be wrong |
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| 468065 | 2006-07-02 19:39:00 | do you have a sata 2 hdd controller? perhaps you need to jumper the drive back to sata? | straitjacket (9698) | ||
| 468066 | 2006-07-02 20:03:00 | It looks to be some setting, as straitjacket said, is it a SATAII motherboard? Also, DMA could be turned off. EDIT: I have just found your other thread, it would have been better to have not made another but posted in the other one, then people know what you are on about :thumbs: Look at gibler's post about DMA in your other thread, this not enabled is the cause for a lot of HDD speed problems /EDIT |
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| 468067 | 2006-07-02 23:28:00 | Hey thanks guys, seems to be working fine now. I went to enable DMA on the SATA controller in the device manager, turns out the hard drive was set to run in something called "PIO mode". Everything worked after I just set it to auto-detect. | jeffreyyan (719) | ||
| 468068 | 2006-07-03 12:04:00 | Thought as much, there was no drop in performance as the other ones did, that is what tipped me off. Good to hear it is fixed :thumbs: |
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