Hey
I have a Barton 2500 @ 3200+, Gigabyte Ga7n400-L Motherboard, 2 x 120 gig seagates (both 7200 rpm, 8 meg cache). When copying from the slave to the primary, my system has 100% cpu usage, and the transfer is extremely slow. I measure the speed by running a DC hub and two Direct Connect clients at once (one client sharing the contents of the secondary drive. I registered a speed of 2.25 megs a second.
After a lot of frustration i realised that my problem is the second drive is running under PIO mode, despite DMA being selected in device manager. I went into the bios and searched around for an option to force DMA mode, but i could not find anything relevant, despite using ctrl + f1 to show the extra features. I have moved the suspect drive into my server, which consists of an Athlon XP 2000+, 512 pc2100, Asus a7v333 motherboard, and a 40 gig 5400rpm drive. The harddrive still runs under PIO mode.
I have another 80 gig hard drive, which i put into my main pc and formatted it, the same way as i formatted the 120 gig hard drive with the problem, and its stuck under PIO mode as well.
Im just wondering if there was anything i could have done wrong in the formatting process? Or is there any way that i can force DMA mode/fix this problem?
Thanks in advance.
