Hard disk file transfer speeds plummeted...

[RJK]

....(from hd to hd), to about 7.3 mb/s and I dunno what I've done to cause it
! After helping my brother on 'phone Ghost backup his PC, which took just a
few minutes for 16 gb's on his drive C:\ (ghosted to his 2nd hd D:\), I
suddenly realised that mine used to be that fast ! Recently my main PC has
been taking about an hour to "Ghost backup" about 20gb's.

I've been rummaging around XP Home ed. SP3+ and can't see anything
obvious...
Did a hd bench test copying a 1gb file from d:\ to c:\

Copy File Bench started...
Copy E:\Norton Backups\X2-6000_C_Drive001_s01.v2i to
C:\X2-6000_C_Drive001_s01.v2i
Size: 1073576427
Time: 140172 ms
Transfer Rate: 7.304 MB/s
Copy File Bench ended,
.... ...what have I done !!!?

SATA II 80gb and 160gb hd's / SATA ports 1 and 2 respectively show as being
in UDMA 6 mode in Device Manager,
I have one IDE 80gb hd connected to the lone IDE port ...it shows as in
UDMA6
DVD rewriter and DVD ROM connected to Sata ports 3 and 4 ...I think
....and I put installed a SIL3132 2 port SATA card into a pci-e x1 card and
connected a 16ogb hd to it, and it's SCSI driver shows the hd is in UDMA6
mode ...pretty sure that problem didn't start at that time.

Tried...
Copy File Bench started...
Copy C:\X2-6000_C_Drive001_s01.v2i to D:\X2-6000_C_Drive001_s01.v2i
Size: 1073576427
Time: 145703 ms
Transfer Rate: 7.027 MB/s
Copy File Bench ended
....in case it's that pci sata card / hd E:\ --- hd's C and D are both on
notherboard SATA ports - just as bad !
....any clues as to where to rummage, ...I feel like I'm missing something
obvious somewhere.

regards, Richard

 

[Bill in Co.]

Keep it up, and you'll probably make two dozen reposts of the same post.

 

[Malke]

Keep it up, and you'll probably make two dozen reposts of the same post.

Yes, and all of them out of place and clearly showing that this person
should not be touching tech. Ever.

Malke

 

[JS]

Try HD Tune, provides drive info and has an option to test your drives
transfer speed which be 50MB/s or better for both drives.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Also SpeedFan has an online health analysis feature
(SMART tab) for hard drives. It will show how your drives
compares with other drives of the same make and model.
Look for any SMART values (Ultra DMA CRC Error Rate,
Reallocated Sector Count, Hardware ECC Recovered) being
too high (usually flagged as "Warning" in SpeedFan.
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

 

[RJK]

Keep it up, and you'll probably make two dozen reposts of the same post.

Thanks, repeating posts something to do with post refusing to leave | OE |
and my ISP strangling NNTP for most of the day,
very constructive help ...thanks !

regards, Richard

 

[RJK]

Yes, and all of them out of place and clearly showing that this person
should not be touching tech. Ever.

Malke

Why waste your breath ? your posts consistently demonstrate that all you're
really interested in doing in demonstrating your own claimed expertise
whilst not really helping very much. Also, you often appear to be an
ignorant little s**t !

regards, Richard

 

[RJK]

Try HD Tune, provides drive info and has an option to test your drives
transfer speed which be 50MB/s or better for both drives.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Also SpeedFan has an online health analysis feature
(SMART tab) for hard drives. It will show how your drives
compares with other drives of the same make and model.
Look for any SMART values (Ultra DMA CRC Error Rate,
Reallocated Sector Count, Hardware ECC Recovered) being
too high (usually flagged as "Warning" in SpeedFan.
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Many thanks, Speedfan v4.34 already installed, SMART for all 3 Seagate hd's
show good health.
Have double checked bios settings for hd's, ...all correct.
Not sure which drive it is yet but, looking through Device Manager "IDE
ATA/ATAPI controllers," and trying to work out which drive is which !
.....getting old, ... and will hve to get the box out to make sure wha't
connected to what !

Primary IDE Channel | Device 0 | PIO Mode
Primary IDE Channel | Device 1 | UDMA 6
Primary IDE Channel | Device 0 | UDMA 4
Primary IDE Channel | Device 1 | n/a(pplicable)
Secondary IDE Channel | Device 0 | UDMA 5
Secondary IDE Channel | Device 1 | n/a
Secondary IDE Channel | Device 0 | n/a
Secondary IDE Channel | Device 1 | n/a

SCSI and RAID Controllers...
Silicon Image SiI3132 SATAlink Controller | Device Info | Channel 1
Target 0 | UDMA6

....so, somehow boot drive got into PIO mode !

regards, Richard

 

[RJK]

Many thanks, Speedfan v4.34 already installed, SMART for all 3 Seagate hd's
show good health.
Have double checked bios settings for hd's, ...all correct.
Not sure which drive it is yet but, looking through Device Manager "IDE
ATA/ATAPI controllers," and trying to work out which drive is which !
....getting old, ... and will hve to get the box out to make sure wha't
connected to what !

Primary IDE Channel         | Device 0 | PIO Mode
    Primary IDE Channel     | Device 1 | UDMA 6
Primary IDE Channel         | Device 0 | UDMA 4
   Primary IDE Channel      | Device 1 | n/a(pplicable)
Secondary IDE Channel     | Device 0 | UDMA 5
   Secondary IDE Channel  | Device 1 | n/a
Secondary IDE Channel     | Device 0 | n/a
   Secondary IDE Channel  | Device 1 | n/a

SCSI and RAID Controllers...
   Silicon Image SiI3132 SATAlink Controller | Device Info | Channel 1
Target 0 | UDMA6

...so, somehow boot drive got into PIO mode !

regards, Richard- Hide quoted text -

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Here's a handy little VBscript to get XP to re-set UDMA mdoes on you
hd's, if they ever drop back to PIO.
....saves manually tweaking:-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-
E325-11­CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

http://winhlp.com/node/10

regards, Richard