A7N8X-X slow HDD

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Steffen Beneker

Hello,

my WD JB 80GB HDD runs very slowly with the a7n8x-x (2-9MB/s), with the old
board (some older asus) it was at about 35MB/s (both tested with Nero). Did
somebody experience the same thing? Its on the primary port with ultra dma
5, like windows xp says. also there is a 20GB drive with udma4 at the
secondary port..

Greets from Germany.
 
Yes, I did experience the same problem upgrading from a A7V-133c to a
A7V8X-X. There seemed to be excessive HD activity. Apparently you need to
use an 80pin IDE cable. One should have been shipped with the MB.
 
Stephen,

It's pretty well documented that you need to run WD drives in Cable
Select mode with the A7N8X. Many people have reported very slow HD
performance in Master/Slave mode but they work fine in Cable select
mode.

I have an A7N8X-Deluxe with a WD 120G drive and I used Cable Select
mode since I built the machine and the HD performance is excellent.

Good luck!

Doug
 
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