lester1 Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Tests on my PC show the access speed of my slave hard drive to be 7/MBs.This is apparently slow! The master drive has an access speed of 18MB/s which is supposedly normal.The slave is formatted to FAT32 and spins at the same speed as the master (5400rpm) and has DMA enabled.M/board asus K7m, processor athlon 650 Mhz slot A, Master drive Quantum Fireball, Slave drive IBM? revision level T55OA73 :blink: OS Win 98SE Any help appreciated Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 20, 2005 Report Share Posted February 20, 2005 What are you using to test? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted February 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2005 PC Pitstop tune up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 20, 2005 Report Share Posted February 20, 2005 Well with respect to pitters I wouldn't take any notice of it.You really need a dedicated tester and not web based.Don't expect high speeds anyway of a 5400 spindle.Do you transfer large amounts of data between drives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted February 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2005 Not realy large amounts of data, I use it for back-ups and file storage mind you there are some picture files on there.Thing is if I dont stop all background programs the file transfers come to a stop with the PC apparently frozen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted February 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 :whistling1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted February 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Problem sorted by PCA.Slave drive ATA33 master drive ATA66 :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 lester1If you'd used Everest then you could have found your drive details out in more detail in the first place ?http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...ang=en&pageid=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted February 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 :blink: And Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 You would have known that the master was ATA 66 and the slave ATA 33 :D and hence would be slower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 Problem sorted by PCA.Slave drive ATA33 master drive ATA66 :( :lol: You might have mentioned that in your first post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted February 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 lester1If you'd used Everest then you could have found your drive details out in more detail in the first place ?http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...ang=en&pageid=1PCA advised using everest to Analise the disc hence the solution. I did not know about everest when I posted here nore did anyone advise me to try it :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 Sorry lester1,I mentioned Everest as soon as I saw your post - think this clashed with the recent server change and me also being ill, so I didn't see it before ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted February 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 No problem BorisHope you are feeling better :flowers: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 I think its just my age .......................... now being over 100 ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted February 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 A bit like my slave hard drive :P Think it was originally in a PII 350 :blink: Should have known :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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