[dba-Tech] Slow transfer rate

Did you get a chance to check the DMA settings?



On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:35:59 -0400, John W. Colby
<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> Yea, the laptop came with XP Home and I need to get on a domain at my
> client's site.  Not much choice other than going backwards to 2K pro.  Since
> you can't install 2K Pro over XP... That involved a clean install with all
> that entails.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
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> 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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