SATA drive very slow ?

Jon_01

Anyone setup a new sata on a windows system ?

I’ve just added a sata (300 gig Maxtor). Made it the master and put a clean install of XP pro on it (with sp 2) and it’s very slow at responding when a drive icon is clicked on (about 3 to 4 seconds to open a window against almost instant with the old ata drive).
I’ve stripped everything other drive out and run it alone and that makes no difference at all. There’s nothing else installed to get in the way, it’s recognized in device manager fine, there’s no dos compatibly issue’s being reported. I had the same problem a year ago and put it down to windows and drivers, but I can’t see why it should be a problem now…

Anyone give me a pointer ??

tunesurfer

Ive never had to do it or anything but I recall reading something just after the sata drives came out that you might have to go into the bios and disable the old ata drives or something like that.


After a quick look on net I see a few ppl having similar problems and it usually comes down to either the drivers for sata installed in windows - the drive having set itself to PIO mode and/or possibly as I said go into bios and set all drives to Auto especially the last of the ide drives (the 3rd or 4th one depending how many ides you have) as this is where the sata drives run from on the boards that support both old ata and the new sata.

CHR15

You can try HDTach to benchmark the drive.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/HDTach_d672.html