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Have you installed the Via drivers, and enabled DMA on the
disk ?

On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:49:56 +1000
"Bill" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote:

> I recently bought a Seagate 80GB Drive.  The Problem I'm
having is that it
> is working considerably slow compared to by 2 year old
Fujitsu 13GB Drive.
> The write speed on the 80GB drive isn't too bad but the
read speed is the
> main problem.
> 
> I installed Windows XP Home on the 80GB using NTFS as the
file system as I
> suspected that it could be the FAT32 file system
struggling to handle the
> large drive.  Unfortunately it wasn't and Windows XP ran
extremely slowly
> due to the slow read speed.
> 
> I then reformatted the drive again as FAT32 using
Seagate's Disc Wizard
> Software.  This allowed me to change to the Cluster size
to 512bytes which
> is the smallest possible.  This showed some initial speed
up in the read and
> write speed of the drive however with the huge amount of
Clusters now on the
> drive it meant calculating the free space of the drive too
a few minutes
> when accessing the drive through My Computer or any other
software which
> requires to free space of the drive to be reported.
> 
> I took the drive into a local Computer Store who went into
the BIOS and
> manually entered in the drives charatesteriscs.  This then
meant the drive
> in the BIOS was 8455MB.  The drive is still fully
accessible as 80GB within
> Windows however.  They re-partition and formatted the hard
drive and
> returned it and claimed it worked. However this wasn't the
case.
> 
> Another thing I tried was installed Dynamic Disc Overlay
(DDO) which is used
> on motherboards and BIOS's that don't support large hard
drives.  This
> didn't provide any improvement either.
> 
> I have benchmarked the drives using Norton Utilities and
this also shows the
> drive to be noticeable slower than the 13GB.  For example
on the Physical
> Benchmark the 13GB Drive has a Drive Throughput of
13.5MB/s while the 80GB
> is low at 6.0MB/s and has been as low as 0.6MB/sec at one
stage.
> 
> Outline below is some information about my system:
> - CA61 Motherboard with a VIA 693A/596B (PC-133) Chipset.
> - Intel Pentium 3 550Mhz (100Mhz x 5.5)
> - 128MB SDRAM
> 
> IDE Configuration
> - Primary Master - Fujitsu MPE3136AT - (13GB Drive)
> - Primary Slave - Seagate ST380021A - (80GB Drive)
> - Secondary Master - EMPTY
> - CD-ROM 40x/AKU
> 
> Expansion Cards
> AGP - TNT2 M64 32MB
> PCI - Creative Vibra 128 Sound Card
> PCI - 10/100 NIC
> PCI - Lifeview FlyVideo 3000 TV Tuner
> 
> Running Windows 98SE with FAT32 on all drives.
> 
> Sorry for the long post but any help would be greatly
appreciated.
> Feel free also to e-mail me regarding this issue at
> 80gig@REMOVETOEMAILnathster.cjb.net. Remove the
'REMOVETOEMAIL' part.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
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