Slow hard disk performance

[AmbitV]

I have a motherboard with highpoint ATA-66 and a IBM 60gxp 7200rpm ATA100 running Windows XP but according to the Sandra benchmark my harddisk is running at about the performance of a 5400rpm ATA-33?!?!

any suggestions...TIA

 

[John]

Sure, scrap the Sandra HD bench and try HD Tach (www.tcdlabs.com/hdtach).

What motherboard?

 

[AmbitV]

soyo 6ba+iv

i'll try that hd tach

 

[AmbitV]

13.9ms / 11.9mbps !!!

that is pretty bad

 

[Sugadaddy]

DMA?

 

[RxL77]

enable DMA!

 

[waycool]

I had the very same problem. I changed to older win2k drivers for the highpoint 370 on my VP6. More than doubled my scores.
Try not using the highpoint drivers from XP.

 

[AmbitV]

thanks waycool i'll try that

does anyone know how to enable DMA in windows XP

many thanks to all for the help