2GB Compact Flash CF slows VISTA laptop

[Guest]

I have just inserted a new 2GB Toshiba CF card into my laptop and find that
the cursor/machine slows whenever I transfer files. File transfer is also
very slow.

The device has been identified and installed correctly and I tried removing
and reinstalling the drivers. PCMCIA IDE/ATAPI Controller version is
6.0.6000.16386.

The property field lists "generic disk drive" at Channel 0, target 0, lun 0-
the data is the same as my HD, could this be the problem?

I get the same problem with two other CF cards, one 16MB and another 256MB.
The 2GB is rated at 150x, the rest 12x.

 

[Dustin Harper]

How much RAM do you have in your machine? It may be trying to read those
files, and your RAM is filling up, slowing it down quite a bit.

 

[Guest]

1GB RAM but the same thing happens with other cards (16MB, 128MB).

Note drive is showing as a PIO mode 4 device but the DMA option is not
available.