John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Sep 16 20:23:08 CDT 2004
No, I looked around and never found that. A "Repair" install fixed the problem. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Francisco Tapia Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 2:20 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of > fhtapia at gmail.com > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:53 AM > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com