fhtapia at gmail.com
fhtapia at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 10:53:25 CDT 2004
ah, you RAN an UPGRADE :) my money is on that... also check to see what your hdd is communicating on... navigate to your device manager, and click on your IDE ATA/ATAPI Devices, Select your Primary IDE channel , properties, and then the Advanced Settings, in the device settings box, you should have DMA if available selected. On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:16:38 -0400, John W. Colby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > Doing the bench on my desktop disks prompted me to bench my laptop. OH MAN, > something is wrong. 3.5 mbytes / sec average transfer rate, 4.0mbytes max. > I thought it felt a TAD slow. > > I posted a not on two forums for my lap top and at least one user is seeing > close to 10 times that rate. Does anyone know what could cause that > dramatic a slowdown? The bios is very basic and does not supply any > adjustments at all. > > I upgraded the machine to Win2K Pro but don't really know if the slowdown > occurred at that time or not. I have checked and the processor is running > at full speed (Athlon64 at 3.0g) so it isn't a "on battery" kind of issue. > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- -Francisco "Rediscover the web" http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ ttp://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliates&id=792&t=86