Slow HDD Speeds???

[Maxamus]

Ive been benchmarking my harddrives using George's Disk Performance Test v0.10 (George from VIA forum) which can be found at h**p://www.networking.tzo.com/net/software -- Please do NOT post direct links to actual files, this is leeching. Post URL it can be d'l from only !
I got the following Results:

Drive 0:
Bandwidth= 64.913Mb/s
Sequential= 31.064Mb/s
Drive 1:
Bandwidth= 77.266Mb/s
Sequentail= 37.715Mb/s

this is my setup:
1 x IBM 60GXP 60Gb ATA/100 [disk on IDE1 as Master]
1 x IBM 75GXP 60Gb ATA/100 [disk on IDE3 as Master using HPTxx.2.3.0]
1 x Plextor PX-W1610TA 16x10x40 CDRW [on IDE2 as Master]
1 x Pioneer DVD-106S 16xDVD 48xCD [on IDE2 as Slave]

Ive seen other peoples benchmarks ard theys are much higher!
Is there any way in which i can improve the speeds??
My full PC setup can be found at:
http://forum.cdrsoft.cc/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1826

Please Help or show your benchmarks for comparison. I would reccomend using this benchmark program!

 

[ChickenMan]

I'm running Win2000 (Sp2):
Asus A7V m/b, Athlon 1.2gig 200fsb, 2x256m PC100 SDRAM with

IBM 60gig HD ATA100 [Promise IDE 1 Master ]
Seagate 40gig 54000rpm ATA100 [Promise IDE 2 Master ]

and get the following readings:

IBM 60gig - Bandwidth 69.599, Sequential 37.453
Seagate 40g - Bandwidth 59.310, Sequential 31.096

I have DMA turned on in both BIOS and Win2000.

Hope that helps.

 

[Shadey]

Well if you're running Win2K with SP2 then you should have the option of turning on DMA 66 support. By default and prior to SP2 there was no option to use harddrives at ATA100.

** I might be confusing this with windows XP but ** You should beable to turn on DMA 66 support in the device manager under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller section and for each (of the main) IDE channels and your RAID or IDE expansion card (whichever you're using for IDE channel 3). If im wrong there are tweak programs for Windows 2000 that also allows you turn on/off DMA 66 support, e.g customizer 2000, i believe.

* IF * you have an intel chipset motherboard make you you download the latest ATA100 drivers from intel's web site in the support section.

Theres something call Intel Application Accelerator (IAA) it is the newest ATA100 supporting driver. It should improve HD performance considerably

Its definately worth giving it a try (intel chipset mobos only though)

- - update - -

having said that iaa might give you problems with burners and nero 5.5.7.2 though its unconfirmed - because i had a few problems with it but so it seems - anyway just a warning.