P4C800-E Deluxe and slow IDE?

[j2]

You prolly dont wanna hear this, but


I tried something tho. I hooked a SATA disk to the SATA1 interface. I
did not partition it, no nothing. But lo and behold, my test file now
unpacks in about 4 minutes, which seems like a fair amount of time..
Since my 2.4GHz system does it in 6 mins.

My retailer was stumped, but said that they have never shipped any
system with PATA and the P4C800-E Deluxe mobo, as it is their high end
choise, and they only use SATA for that. As well as he guessed that
peopel refitting their systems with this mobo also used SATA. Since he
had never heard any complaints about this.

 

[Colin D]

Have you set the drives as master and slave correctly if on the one ide
channel. Make sure they are NOT set at cable select. Are you using an 80
ribbon cable and not a 40 for the hard drives?

I have a P4C800-E board with a 3.0 GHz Northwood cpu, 1 GByte of Kingston
PC3200 ram, and the HD is a 120 GByte Seagate with an 8MByte buffer,
partitioned into 4 30 Gig partitions, C: to F:. The IDE controller is set
for DMA transfers. As your problem piqued my interest I ran a check here.
I copied a folder from D: to C: with these results. The folder contained 13
sub-folders holding in total 622 files, total bytes copied was 1.77GBytes,
time to copy was 2 min. 49 sec.

Incidentally, that drive and another removable backup drive in a mobile tray
are both set for cable select so they are interchangeable. I haven't heard
anything against cable select, so if there is a problem I haven't seen it,
and I would like to know what it might be.

Colin.

 

[sheer]

Incidentally, that drive and another removable backup drive in a mobile tray
are both set for cable select so they are interchangeable. I haven't heard
anything against cable select, so if there is a problem I haven't seen it,
and I would like to know what it might be.

Colin.

Hi Colin

There were issues between cable select and allot of cables. Basically why
cable select never really became popular.
This may well now not be an issue, but there are so many cheap cables my
rule of thumb is on a case by case basis.

If yours is working fine great.

 

[Colin D]

Hi Colin

There were issues between cable select and allot of cables. Basically why
cable select never really became popular.
This may well now not be an issue, but there are so many cheap cables my
rule of thumb is on a case by case basis.

If yours is working fine great.

Ok, thanks for the explanation. I am using the 80-wire cables that came with
the board, so I presume they would be good quality.

 

[tk]

Ok, thanks for the explanation. I am using the 80-wire cables that came
with
the board, so I presume they would be good quality.

No doubt I'd be pretty bummed if they weren't. ;-)

 

[jph]

Hi,

One quick suggestion would be to play about with combinations of
settings in the IDE configuartion menu in the BIOS.

Try compatibility mode (You'll probably lose access to one sata
drive).

Also try with all the combinations of enhanced mode.

I have had weird ATA/SATA problems that have been fixed with a bit
of tinkering here (CDROMs disappearing, linux not playing ball etc)

jph