Newbie question. Re Maxtor UDMA-33

[CuriousBritDude1]

I am experiencing performance problems with a second 8.4 Gb Maxtor Hard Drive. This second drive was installed to take some of the burden off the Primary Maxtor drive (windows 95 swap file).

The details:-

Biostar Motherboard
AMD K6 300 Processor
UDMA Maxtor 6.4Gb Primary HD
UDMA Maxtor 8.4Gb Secondary HD (on the same ribbon as primary).
UDMA ribbon connecting Primary & secondary.

Attempted to format 8.4Gb with Maxtor's utility. The utility partitioned the drive but was unable to format this drive.

The BIOS "sees" the entire drive capacity and can access the entire drive but the access to this drive is VERY SLOW compared to the 6.4Gb Maxtor.

Maxtor's test utility "PowerMax" fails on the S.M.A.R.T. part of the test.

I have the latest busmaster IDE driver from BioStar.

Any thoughts?
Thankyou in advance.

 

[Joony]

if it fails a test, RMA the drive...

 

[drewski]

8.4GB swap file?!?

- check the jumpers on the 2nd drive to make sure they are set as "Slave".
- try a different IDE cable

if you're still getting the errors, RMA as was previously suggested.

 

[CuriousBritDude1]

<< 8.4GB swap file?!?

- check the jumpers on the 2nd drive to make sure they are set as &quot;Slave&quot;.
- try a different IDE cable

if you're still getting the errors, RMA as was previously suggested. >>



Thankyou for your reply.

Yes, the second drive(8.4Gb) is set to slave. I bought a new UDMA-66 cable from best buy to replace my old skanky IDE cable.

The 8.4Gb is to run windows 95 swap file on. I hope this will take some of the load off my Primary HD (UDMA-33) 6.4Gb.
The drive I bought from a friend, I assume RMA means return to factory?