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In article <2129@acf5.NYU.EDU> liuyu@acf5.NYU.EDU (liuyu) writes:
>Hi,
>  I just bought a Wd Caviar 2200 hard drive. The Norton SI only shows about
>600k/sec DTR. But it showed over 1000k/sec DTR when I first
>installed it. Later it just dropped down to 600k.
>The Checkit gives me 890k/s consistantly. I tried a different IDE card. And
>the same thing happened again. At first SI showed over 1000k DTR. But after
>running checkit which gave me 890k, SI dropped down to 600k. Even after
>rebooting, SI still gave me 600k.
>I was wondering if Norton SI or Checkit had bugs. Maybe one them change my
>CMOS setting (ie bus speed). But I doubt it because I checked my CMOS and
>there was no change.


You know, I've had a similar experience with a Maxtor 7130 
drive. When first installed Checkit gave it a 700+k transfer
rate. Its now dropped down to 350 or so. 

I wonder if the automatic sector substitution (where the drive 
will move stuff from a bad sector to a reserved, good sector) 
has kicked in. Its supposed to be transparent. Yes, I have been 
doing disk optimization.




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