[dba-Tech] Slow transfer rate

I just ran a Windows XP Pro "fix" of my install and that fixed the problem.
Took three damned hours though!!! Not a speedy thing.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:53 AM
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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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