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Martin Hirsch
Hi,
My original configuration consisted two PATA Maxtor 160gb drives on the
promise controller in a non-raid IDE configuration. These drives at boot up
show up in the promise bios as UDMA6 drives and are operating at the optimum
speed.
I then installed a new WD 360gb SATA drive on the Intel controller with a
fresh operating system (XPsp2) and made it the bootable drive. Since this
drive is SATA I expected equal or better performance than the original
Maxtor PATA drive installation but it was noticeably slower in every aspect
with just the operating system and a few programs installed.
I went into the bios and noticed the SATA drive was auto configuring as
UDMA5 on the Intel controller.
I then plugged the drive into the promise SATA connector on the MB and again
at boot up it showed up as a UDMA5 drive where the other two PATA drives
show up as UDMA6.
I have gone into the bios and made all the correct adjustments I believe.
When connected to the Intel controller I set the following:
"Onboard IDE Operate Mode" [Enhanced]
"Enhanced Mode Support On" [S-ATA]
"Configure SATA as RAID" [No]
The Maxtor drives are noticeably faster at 133mb/s than the new WD SATA
drive which I believe is running at 100mb/s.
How can I get the new SATA drive up to speed.
Thanks for any help!! Martin
My original configuration consisted two PATA Maxtor 160gb drives on the
promise controller in a non-raid IDE configuration. These drives at boot up
show up in the promise bios as UDMA6 drives and are operating at the optimum
speed.
I then installed a new WD 360gb SATA drive on the Intel controller with a
fresh operating system (XPsp2) and made it the bootable drive. Since this
drive is SATA I expected equal or better performance than the original
Maxtor PATA drive installation but it was noticeably slower in every aspect
with just the operating system and a few programs installed.
I went into the bios and noticed the SATA drive was auto configuring as
UDMA5 on the Intel controller.
I then plugged the drive into the promise SATA connector on the MB and again
at boot up it showed up as a UDMA5 drive where the other two PATA drives
show up as UDMA6.
I have gone into the bios and made all the correct adjustments I believe.
When connected to the Intel controller I set the following:
"Onboard IDE Operate Mode" [Enhanced]
"Enhanced Mode Support On" [S-ATA]
"Configure SATA as RAID" [No]
The Maxtor drives are noticeably faster at 133mb/s than the new WD SATA
drive which I believe is running at 100mb/s.
How can I get the new SATA drive up to speed.
Thanks for any help!! Martin