Hard Drive performance problem

[needshelp1234]

Is this normal ? I have a asus av7 kt133 motherboard, 1 gighertz tbird. I have two western digital hard drives connected it. One hard drive is a 13 meg udma 66 5400 rpm hd and it serves as the secondary master device. I have another hd a 30 gig udma 100 7200 drive as the primary master device.When i transfer a gigabyte of data between the two drives it takes around 9 minutes using windows me. When i set the 13 gig drive as a primary slave to the 30 gig primary master device the transfer time gets reduced to 4 minutes. Is there something wrong with my motherboard and is 4 minutes still a long time to transfer a gig of data ?

Also I recently bought a teac 16x burner. I set that as the secondary master. The burner supposedly reads a 40 x. When I make a cd copy (around 620 megs, the path is from cd to hd and back to the cd(i only have one cd drive)) it takes 7 minutes to read that thing to my drive but when i burn it it copies it back in 4 1/2 minutes. Whats going on here ?

Thanks

 

[emjem]

Part of the slowness problem could be that the drives are not set to DMA.

ControlPanel/System/DeviceManager/Disk drives/select drive/properties/settings

Make sure the DMA box is checked. Reboot. For some reason sometimes this the DMA setting won't take so you have to do it over again.

If nothing else I'm giving you a bump.

 

[needshelp1234]

I checked the dma boxes already. Thanks anyway.

 

[PAT31850]

Does your board have the four seperate drive connectors? Did you get the newest promise 100 drivers? I believe I have the same board and I set hard drive on the ATA100 master, Burner on the sec master. Put a cd rom and a small HD on the other two. Got really good results burning and transfering files. Be sure and run separate cables for each and use the 80 wire for the ATA100.

 

[needshelp1234]

the ata100 connector is that the promise controller thing? I disabled it cause i thought it was for raid 0 or something. I used the set of ide connectors that are in a row with the floppy ide connector. But if you say its faster, I'll go switch connections when i get home. Whats the typcial transfer rate anyway for a gig of stuff. How many minutes does it take ? Tanks

 

[Duvie]

You definitely have some issues...use latest 4 in 's????

I transferred 4 plus gigs of info in 3 separarte divx movie files and it took like 7 minutes...I think that is long. But If I grab 1 gig of a bunch of smaller files it flies like a rocket. Is there some type of large file transfer problem? and this sounds like something I have heard mentioned with the via southbridge chip. Or is this a case of how fast and large the hdd cache? Does write behind caching have anything to do with this?

Your transfer rate of 1 gig in 9 minutes works out to be 1.8mb/sec = nowhere near ata33 standards...by the way was it one file? What type of media was it?

My transfer was 4 gigs in about 7 minutes which is like 9.5mb/sec...I noticed that in some parts of the file it sped up quite significantly and slowed down in others....could the bitrate of the divx files have something to do with this? The most heavily compressed file did take the longest.

I noticed in one large cd burn of a divx movie that was highly compressed it wouldn't let me burn it at 12x...I had to do it at 8x. Others no problem, eventhough they came off of the same drive.

 

[needshelp1234]

They were small mp3 files. Could it have something to do with not partitioning my drive. My drive is one big 30 gig chunk. What exactly are the latest 4 ins?

 

[shathal]

4 in 1 drivers are ... (dramatic drums)

Chipset drivers for your motherboard. Basically "makes Windows aware of the things your mobo can do", to simplify things.

Does it make more sense now?