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Just built new system....need help

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Energenie

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Having problem with very slow transfer rates from CD Rom drive to hard drive. Takes about 80 minutes to transfer 600mb of data. Tried transfering same data between master and slave hard drive and it takes about 30 seconds. Also tried transfering same data on my Gateway PIII 500 with a DVD Drive and it takes about 8-10 minutes. Using Bios version 2.6, VIA 4 in 1 drivers version 4.32.Tried checking and unchecking DMA on both drives, tried switching from auto to PIO4 in bios, just doubled the time to 160 minutes, tried disabling UDMA in bios same outcome as PIO4. Tried unhooking secondary hard drive and secondary CD Rom, tried changing IDE cables from 80 wire ribbon to 40. Tried different CD Rom Drive. Tried unloading the VIA BUS master PCI IDE controller and replacing it with generic Microsoft drivers, didn't help.

I give up, I need some heeeeeeeelp 🙂

And to think I volunteered to build this for my dad :-(

System specs are as follows:
Windows 98 second edition ver 4.10.2222 A
AMD Athlon 1.4ghz 266mhz
MSI K7T Turbo
Leadtek Winfast Geforce 2 ultra 64mb
SB Live Value
256mb Crucial Ram
Plextor Plexwriter 12/10/32a CDR/CDRW
Memorex 48X CD Rom
US Robotics 56k modem
Win TV Card
Antec SX1040 Case 400w power supply
 
Let me see if i envision your system properly.
IDEPrimary M: HDD 1 (Boot Drive, OS)
S: CD Rom
IDESecondary M: HDD2
S: CD-RW

If this is the case, This could solve your problem
Change to this setup:
IDE Prim M: HDD1
S: HDD2 (or preferably empty)
IDE Seco M: CD-RW
S: CD Rom (Preferably empty)

Reason: Unlike SCSI, IDE has some difficulty at times with transfers going across the same bus. This is why IDE CD-RW took so long to work well. If you look at the manual for your burner, on the fly burning across the same controller (primary M to S, or secondary M to S) is not recommended. Also, if you have devices with differing speeds on the same controller (prim M&S or Second M&S) you will effectively drop the faster device to the slower speed. This is why you genereally want to have your HDD on its own controller, and CD-RW as master on the secondary controller. If you just have to use a second CD type device it is a good idea to keep it on the secondary controller. BTW- if both HDD's are the same speed (I.E.: UDMA 5, or whatever) I would probably run the both on the primary controller.
 
This is Off Topic. This thread does not belong in the Highly technical forum.

Try General Hardware or Technical Support, you'll likely have better luck there.
 
First of all sorry Burn and Rand for off topic, thought this was the right forum for this... here is the setup of the drives
IDE 1 Master: Maxtor 20GB ATA-100, 80 wire cable, boot drive
IDE 1 slave: IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40GB ATA-100, iknow this drive is better but he got it to me after I had everything set up on Maxtor drive 🙁
IDE 2 Master: Plextor Plexwriter 10/12/32a CDR/CDRW
IDE 2 Slave: Memorex CD-482E 48x cd rom
 
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