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From: GT on 22 Jan 2008 05:57
"AdenOne" <pacific-one(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Transfer mode is not PIO, its Ultra-DMA Mode 5, this was one of the
> first things I checked but forgot to put in my original post.

Just delete the drive and controller from the device manager and reboot.
They will be re-configured when you reboot. If this doesn't work, then get
the latest drivers for your controller and install the drivers, then repeat
this process.


From: AdenOne on 22 Jan 2008 06:40
I don't have access to the PC right now, I will wait until I visit her
again.
The rate varied between 400KB\sec and 3,060KB\sec during the tests,
and the drive says Ultra DMA Mode 5 in the device manager, with the
DVD-RW drive being Ultra DMA Mode 2.

It could very well be reaching its lifetime limit, as her old PC was a
really old HP Pentium 4 'Willamette' model, I did recommend replacing
the drive but she needed a new PC for cheap and using the old HDD
saved a fair bit. I will test using HD Tach when I am next there, I
tested my two home PC's today and got 79MB\sec on the SATA2 model and
51MB\sec on the ATA-100 model, so I am now quite sure the slow drive
is her issue.

Thanks for all the help.
From: GT on 22 Jan 2008 07:54

"AdenOne" <pacific-one(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I don't have access to the PC right now, I will wait until I visit her
> again.
> The rate varied between 400KB\sec and 3,060KB\sec during the tests,
> and the drive says Ultra DMA Mode 5 in the device manager, with the
> DVD-RW drive being Ultra DMA Mode 2.

The drive might well say that, but double click on the primary (or
secondary) controller and check the information on one of the tabs there -
it lists the master and slave devices in a table and the mode is listed for
each.

> It could very well be reaching its lifetime limit, as her old PC was a
> really old HP Pentium 4 'Willamette' model, I did recommend replacing
> the drive but she needed a new PC for cheap and using the old HDD
> saved a fair bit. I will test using HD Tach when I am next there, I
> tested my two home PC's today and got 79MB\sec on the SATA2 model and
> 51MB\sec on the ATA-100 model, so I am now quite sure the slow drive
> is her issue.
>
> Thanks for all the help.


From: AdenOne on 22 Jan 2008 15:29
> The drive might well say that, but double click on the primary (or
> secondary) controller and check the information on one of the tabs there -
> it lists the master and slave devices in a table and the mode is listed for
> each.

Sorry, thats what I meant, the tab for each drive does not list
speeds, its the Primary IDE controller tab I looked at. There is only
1 controller on this board and so it has both drives on it as master-
slave with the HDD being master.
From: GT on 23 Jan 2008 05:52
"AdenOne" <pacific-one(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> The drive might well say that, but double click on the primary (or
>> secondary) controller and check the information on one of the tabs
>> there -
>> it lists the master and slave devices in a table and the mode is listed
>> for
>> each.
>
> Sorry, thats what I meant, the tab for each drive does not list
> speeds, its the Primary IDE controller tab I looked at. There is only
> 1 controller on this board and so it has both drives on it as master-
> slave with the HDD being master.

You might get a slight speed improvement if you split the drives over the
two channels, but we're not talking much difference - maybe a few percent.
This is something to address once you have sorted out the real problem!


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