slow data transfer between drives

[remidizer]

I have a maxtor 120gb 8mb drive on my first ide cable, on my second cable I have a Fujitsu 20gb and my cdrw.
The thing I think is a problem is that when I go to transfer a movie thats 1.2gb is sie from my maxtor to my fulitsu, it takes around 8 to 9 minutes? Is this normal as it seems pretty slow to me?

My other hardware is an Abit mobo, athlon xp2600 and 512mb crucial ram 333mhz

Thanks for any help

 

[cdogg]

On a decent day, your hard drives should have no problem transferring anywhere from 25-30MB per second, assuming that the data being transferred is not fragmented.

So, it shouldn't take any longer than 2 minutes at a pace of 10MB/sec. It seems that one of your drives may be running at the wrong ATA speed. Make sure your Fujitsu drive is attached with an 80-pin cable. Many motherboards normally come with an 80-pin cable for the primary channel and a 40-pin for the secondary. Perhaps that was overlooked?

Also it wouldn't hurt to know the OS that you're running...


~cdogg
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[remidizer]

Both cable s are 80 pin, the maxtor is a 133 and the fulitsu is a 100 ata

I'm running win98 for my sins

 

[cdogg]

Just for kicks, try taking the CD-RW off of the secondary IDE channel (with the PC off of course) and try the transfer again making sure that each hard drive has the IDE channel to themselves.


~cdogg
[tab]"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
[tab][tab]- A. Einstein

 

[remidizer]

yeah I just tried that, still the same Im fraid

One point, my swap file is only 136mb, would this make much difference? I havent modified its size at all?

 

[zepper]

It sure doesn't sound like that Fuji is running UDMA/UATA. Sometimes even when you remove a CD drive from a cable the channel will stay stuck in slow mode - you may have to reset it manually. Check Device Manager for settings and make sure you have the latest chipset drivers installed - IDE, AGP, etc.
. If your CD drive isn't capable of UDMA/UATA, it would be best to get it off onto its own channel. See the Syba controller on

http://www.dealsonic.com

, about $16.+sh. You could even disable the secondary onboard channel to free up an IRQ for it and still have a channel for each drive while still using only 2 IRQs.
.bh.


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