I cannot decide if this is a bad hard drive or a driver issue.
I have a IBM 60GXP 40 gig under win2k SP2. It doesn't make any noise (more than normal), it has never had 1 bad sector, it is fast etc. However, it seems to be running slower than it should. If I connect it to the ATA-100 port of my ep-8k7a I get 20k sisoft marks. If I connect it to a promise 100 PCI controller, it gets 21000. It should get 25,000 or more. Benchmark results always say it has random reads/writes of like 7 MB a second, this seems a tad low (maybe 12 would seem more reasonable) but it is a fairly large disk so I can buy that. Also, it tends to pause a lot. Sometimes when I am on Miranda ICQ, everytime I send a message it writes it to my hard drive. I hear like a 1 second long disk write to write a .01k file, and it freezes up my system for that time. I cannot stand the sound of that, argh.
This seems like it could be either hardware probs or driver probs, but I have no empty drives to test out. I DID once zap this drive with 12V out of my power supply and make my computer turn off, I think that is when it started to act funny. But could an electric shock make it act fine 90% of the time, just be a little laggy?
However all my crap is on irq11 in Win2k SP2. This leads to me to believe it is more a driver thing. One of these days I will get around to formating it. However I cannt resize my windows partition so it will be hard to do. I can do anything else on the drive with PM 6, but I cannot resize the windows partition. I guess the partiton table bit the dust or something. Blah.
I have a IBM 60GXP 40 gig under win2k SP2. It doesn't make any noise (more than normal), it has never had 1 bad sector, it is fast etc. However, it seems to be running slower than it should. If I connect it to the ATA-100 port of my ep-8k7a I get 20k sisoft marks. If I connect it to a promise 100 PCI controller, it gets 21000. It should get 25,000 or more. Benchmark results always say it has random reads/writes of like 7 MB a second, this seems a tad low (maybe 12 would seem more reasonable) but it is a fairly large disk so I can buy that. Also, it tends to pause a lot. Sometimes when I am on Miranda ICQ, everytime I send a message it writes it to my hard drive. I hear like a 1 second long disk write to write a .01k file, and it freezes up my system for that time. I cannot stand the sound of that, argh.
This seems like it could be either hardware probs or driver probs, but I have no empty drives to test out. I DID once zap this drive with 12V out of my power supply and make my computer turn off, I think that is when it started to act funny. But could an electric shock make it act fine 90% of the time, just be a little laggy?
However all my crap is on irq11 in Win2k SP2. This leads to me to believe it is more a driver thing. One of these days I will get around to formating it. However I cannt resize my windows partition so it will be hard to do. I can do anything else on the drive with PM 6, but I cannot resize the windows partition. I guess the partiton table bit the dust or something. Blah.
