I have a machine with an Aopen Via motherboard. AX64Pro. It supports ATA66.
The harddrive in it is an 20gig ATA100 7200rpm Quantum drive.
I just installed the SiSoft Sandra progam and ran the drive benchmark. This shows you your drive speed (after running for around 10 minutes) and for reference, shows you the speed of similar drives.
The reference drives follow along with thier scores...
ATA U100 2x Raid 0 7200rpm - 36300
ATA U100 7200rpm - 24000
ATA U66 RAID 0 7200rpm - 32000
ATA U66 7200rpm - 17000
My drive scored - 6479
There is obviously somthing wrong here. I understand that the ATA100 drive will run at ATA66 in this motherboard, but that does not explain the horrible performance. What can I do? What should I check to make sure that the drive is installed properly.
Yes, I have good cable (rated at ATA100). The drive is the master drive on the primary IDE port.
What is going on?
Other Machine info..
Celeron 666
512mb ram
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
TNT2 video
etc
etc
Thanks.
<font color=purple><b>Brad</b></font color=purple><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by brad on 10/24/01 10:11 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
The harddrive in it is an 20gig ATA100 7200rpm Quantum drive.
I just installed the SiSoft Sandra progam and ran the drive benchmark. This shows you your drive speed (after running for around 10 minutes) and for reference, shows you the speed of similar drives.
The reference drives follow along with thier scores...
ATA U100 2x Raid 0 7200rpm - 36300
ATA U100 7200rpm - 24000
ATA U66 RAID 0 7200rpm - 32000
ATA U66 7200rpm - 17000
My drive scored - 6479
There is obviously somthing wrong here. I understand that the ATA100 drive will run at ATA66 in this motherboard, but that does not explain the horrible performance. What can I do? What should I check to make sure that the drive is installed properly.
Yes, I have good cable (rated at ATA100). The drive is the master drive on the primary IDE port.
What is going on?
Other Machine info..
Celeron 666
512mb ram
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
TNT2 video
etc
etc
Thanks.
<font color=purple><b>Brad</b></font color=purple><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by brad on 10/24/01 10:11 AM.</EM></FONT></P>