[dba-Tech] Slow transfer rate

might also be worth running the add hardware wizard to see if it can find
some better drivers for the hard disk controller. I know that sounsd odd as
it should already have one, but it can't hurt.


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: fhtapia at gmail.com [mailto:fhtapia at gmail.com]
Sent: 15 September 2004 16:53
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Slow transfer rate


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
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