New hard drive is really slow

[tigersty1e]

I just bought a new seagate 80 gig hard drive and I'm running it as my slave drive.

I can play half life 2 well without any stuttering on my master drive Maxtor 20 gig drive. But when I run the game on the second drive, there is a very noticeable stuttering. I am playing both games with the same settings.

I have my master drive attached to it's own black cable. My dvd-rom and slave drive is attached to the same cable (no more cables).

P4 2.66 MHZ
512 MB ram
BFG geforce 6800 oc 128 MB


Any suggestions?

Thanks,

 

[sonoma1993]

having your cd rom and your seagate harddrive iattach to the same cable is casuing the hdd to slow down. it usally a bad idea to have a cd rom and hdd on the same cable, since the cd rom runs at like at33 or somewere along that line, it'll force the hdd drive to run at at33 also.

 

[Viper96720]

No it won't bus mastering prevents that. Just make sure your using an ata-100 cable and not an ata-33 one. The ata-100 wires will look skinnier than an ata-33 one. Check your dma settings and run hdtach. Tell us what kind of scores you get. Should be able to tell if it's running full speed.