I have trouble to get speed on my P-ATA drive (Hitachi Deskstar 160GB, or Maxtor 300 GB) connected to my motherboard P-ATA IDE-channel. Asus support can not help me resolve this, so I rely on this forum now
Brief system spec:
ASUS P5Q SE
Kingston 2x1GB memory DDR
SATA drive (for OS) Seagate Barracuda.
Win XP, SP3
The SATA drive works fine, fast and show up in BIOS setting.
The P-ATA DVD-RW Samsung also works fine, for both reading and writing. This is connected as Master.
The P-ATA HDD, slave, however is extremely slow, 1GB file transfer takes 15 minutes at least.
Their is no setting available in BIOS for the P-ATA devices, except for determining boot sequence.
It does not help to disconnect the SATA, or to change to master, or to re-format, or to change to my Maxtor disc.
BTW, I tried to do a clean installation of Windows7 on the P-ATA, which includes doing a format, but the drive was slow through the entire installation process and after 1hr copying files from the DVD, I gave up. So apparantly, even though no OS is installed, the drive is painfully slow.
Anyone who can help me to investigate this further and resolve?
Thanks
JOhan
Brief system spec:
ASUS P5Q SE
Kingston 2x1GB memory DDR
SATA drive (for OS) Seagate Barracuda.
Win XP, SP3
The SATA drive works fine, fast and show up in BIOS setting.
The P-ATA DVD-RW Samsung also works fine, for both reading and writing. This is connected as Master.
The P-ATA HDD, slave, however is extremely slow, 1GB file transfer takes 15 minutes at least.
Their is no setting available in BIOS for the P-ATA devices, except for determining boot sequence.
It does not help to disconnect the SATA, or to change to master, or to re-format, or to change to my Maxtor disc.
BTW, I tried to do a clean installation of Windows7 on the P-ATA, which includes doing a format, but the drive was slow through the entire installation process and after 1hr copying files from the DVD, I gave up. So apparantly, even though no OS is installed, the drive is painfully slow.
Anyone who can help me to investigate this further and resolve?
Thanks
JOhan